SCHOOLS – Community partnerships are crucial to good education
By SHELLEY SIM Trustee, School District 73 “Partnership is not a posture but a process – a continuous process that grows stronger each year as we devote ourselves to [Continue]
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SCHOOLS – Teamwork, collaboration are key parts of local education
By JOE SMALL Trustee, School District 73 IT GOES WITHOUT saying, providing education to more than 14,000 students in several communities across hundreds of kilometres of the [Continue]
SCHOOLS – Aboriginal perspective recognizes learning is not linear
By DENISE HARPER Trustee, School District 73 TEN YEARS AGO, while attending a regional school trustees meeting in Lillooet, I was treated to a tour of a traditional fish camp [Continue]
EDITORIAL – Time SD73 got a fair shake on funding for school upgrades
THIS BOOKLET tells an interesting story — it was announced by the School District 73 board of education this week and makes for some fascinating reading about how Kamloops [Continue]
Late shift for snow-plowing crews
UPDATE — City snow-removal crews will be working in the business districts during the evenings tonight (Wednesday) and through Friday. Targeted areas tonight include 1st [Continue]
Another snow day for schools, not TRU
UPDATE — Thompson Rivers University campus will be open for business today (Tuesday). The university announced at 6:30 a.m. that regular operations will resume today after [Continue]
New Kamloops-Thompson school board takes office
NEWS/ SCHOOLS — The board of trustees will be sworn into office tonight (Monday) for the Kamloops-Thompson School District. Joan Cowden, Kathleen Karpuk, Joe Small, Meghan [Continue]
Working the cobwebs out of schools
NEWS/ SCHOOLS — It may take a few days to work the cobwebs out of the school system when it fires up for another year of classes Monday, says Kamloops-Thompson [Continue]
School’s in at 10:30 a.m. Monday
NEWS/ SCHOOLS — Classes will start Monday at 10:30 a.m. for elementary and secondary classes in the Kamloops-Thompson School District. The district issued a notice to [Continue]
Editorial — Should parents ask their kids to take sides?
TUESDAY MORNING EDITORIAL — When should parents start involving their children in politics, especially the politics of protest? At least some Kamloops parents are joining [Continue]
Schools empty and behind picket lines as ‘job action like no other’ by teachers hits town
By MICHELE YOUNG Kamloops schools were empty except for principals and vice-principals, students stayed home and teachers held picket signs as the B.C. Teachers’ [Continue]
