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Category Archives: School Board
Surrey high schools go green with solar panels
The Province has awarded four Surrey secondary schools with grant funding for solar panel installations. The new “solar walls” will heat outdoor air as it enters the ventilation system for each school’s gym. At a cost of roughly $100,000 per … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, School Board, South Surrey, Whalley
Tagged bc, emissions, green, school, solar, surrey
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Wither the Surrey Civic Coalition?
Last week, major political news broke when two Surrey Civic Coalition school trustees broke off from the left leaning political party to join the new, non-partisan coalition party Surrey Education First, modelled after Mayor Watts’ Surrey First team on City … Continue reading
Posted in City Hall, Election, School Board
Tagged bc, board, city council, education, laurie larsen, party, politics, scc, school board, stephanie ryan, surrey, surrey education first, terry allen
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What to do with the Anniedale schoolhouse?
As we reported recently, the new Tynehead-Anniedale Neighbourhood Concept Plan is currently being finalized – a plan which will radically reshape the existing rural community into a highway oriented industrial park and high rise residential area. One of the community’s … Continue reading
Posted in Cloverdale, Development, Guildford, Heritage, School Board
Tagged anniedale, bc, Cloverdale, Development, heritage, restore, school, schoolhouse, surrey
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Surrey’s score on annual learning index stalls
The Canadian Council of Learning recently released the results of its fifth annual Composite Learning Index survey, revealing that educational improvements across Canada, on average, have stalled. In Surrey, after significant gains in 2007, bringing our score up from 75 … Continue reading
Posted in City Hall, School Board, Social Services
Tagged bc, canada, education, index, learning, surrey
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SD36 HQ making construction progress [pics]
The School District’s new headquarters, officially known as the District Education and Conference Centre, is getting closer to completion. The $40 million LEED Gold project consists of a four-storey, 125,000 sq. ft. building that will house administration, district education programs, … Continue reading
Posted in Development, School Board, Whalley
Tagged hq, office, school board, sd36, surrey, Whalley
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School district HQ construction [pics]
The District Education and Conference Centre, phase 1:
Posted in Development, School Board, Whalley
Tagged district, education, school, sd36, surrey
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1 in 10 Surrey students in portables
By 2011, about 7,300 students in the Surrey School District will likely be attending classes in portables. That’s at least one in 10 kids – the equivalent of all the children at 12 elementary schools. Surrey currently has 217 portables … Continue reading
Posted in School Board
Tagged education, elementary, funding, kindergarten, portables, preschool, school, sd36, surrey, terry allen
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