The Public Education action committee is championed by Vicki Scully and Laverne Thompson. Contact them if you would like to participate: [email protected], [email protected]

Our Public Trustees are members of a corporate board responsible for the improvement of student
achievement in the VSB.

• How do they work for schools and parents?

What are the most effective uses of School Facilities as the City Densifies?Will funding reflect the impact of enrolment changes?

• How to ensure funding/maintenance for after school programs?
• What is VSB doing to address seismic upgrading?
• More sustainable and climate resilient facilities?

Vancouver currently has a serious deficit of childcare spaces (ages 0-5)

• We need strategies for advocating that all three levels of government design a framework for
  elementary schools to provide ECE in unused classrooms or portables.

The ongoing challenges of providing quality Inclusive Education

• Need provincial policies that foster responsive learning environments, respect diversity
• Need provincial policies that reduce all forms of violence, promote non-violent interventions

Skills for the future – The Federal Gov’t has embarked on an ambitious nation building agenda

• Advocate that this must be matched by an equally ambitious talent and skills agenda.
• Schools need to align curriculum with workforce needs.

Policies for Parents – Citizenship is key to maintaining a healthy democracy.

• How to promote citizenship and participation in civic politics?