Tell your school trustees...
Our schools are needed by the growing number of families and children who live here.
They are part of our community life.
They occupy cherished, historic buildings that are vital to our neighbourhood’s character.
They attract others to our city.
They are healthy for the environment and for our kids, who can walk and bike to school.
In study after study, smaller neighbourhood schools consistently score higher in academic achievement, graduation rates, parental involvement, extracurricular involvement, school safety, financial and administrative efficiency, teacher job satisfaction, and many other areas. This is why American school districts are now desperately trying to reverse merger and closure policies of previous decades. Why make the same mistake?
Contact information:
Tim Stobbs (Subdivision 1);
tim.stobbs@gmail.com Telephone: 751-0365
Dr. Barbara Young (Subdivision 2);
beyoung@accesscomm.ca Telephone: 584-2040
Dale West (Subdivision 3);
kennethdwest@gmail.com Telephone: 585-1731
Cindy Anderson (Subdivision 4);
cindyandersonrps@gmail.com Telephone: 949-1684
Carla Beck (Subdivision 5);
carlabeck@sasktel.net Telephone: 530-3320
Katherine Gagne (Subdivision 6);
gagne@accesscomm.ca Telephone: 585-6601
Angela Fraser (Subdivision 7)
arfraser@sasktel.net Telephone: 775-0368
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Email the Minister
Education Act reform will provide the playing field we need to address continuing school closures throughout the province. Please email Minister Krawetz about the need for fairness for all.
Minister’s email: minister.edu@gov.sk.ca
CC. to the Premier: premier@gov.sk.ca
We have recommended to the Minister that he consider the Ontario guidelines for all Saskatchewan schools. If we had these guidelines, our process would have been different:
- A full review of each school, focusing on its value to students and the community, would proceed the process and be publicly available in advance.
- We would have received 6 months notice of the first public meeting, instead of one business day.
- Minutes of the public meetings would have been publicly available with a possibility to make amendments and clarifications, rather than being kept under wraps until the end.
- Relevant financial information would have been easily accessible to the public, rather than having to hound the board office over a period of weeks to get basic information.
- Most importantly, a review committee would be struck that includes members of the wider community, not just trustees.
- We would have had an appeal process.