PROGRESS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

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PROGRESS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
OVERVIEW

• Response to Select Standing Committee
• Progress on recommendations
• Student achievement agenda
• Education accomplishments

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PROGRESS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
OUR NEW ERA VISION

• A top-notch education system for students of
  all ages

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NEW ERA ACHIEVEMENTS

• Restore education as an essential service
• Ensure parents can volunteer in schools
• Provide more choices for students
• Give local school boards more autonomy
• Put more computers in schools and increased
• computer literacy

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NEW ERA ACHIEVEMENTS

• Devote more of each education dollar to improving
  the quality of education and less to bureaucracy
• Work with educators and employers to expand job
  training and skills development opportunities
• Maintain current funding arrangements for
  independent schools

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PROGRESS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
NEW ERA ACHIEVEMENTS

• Provide teachers with more technology training
• Eliminate the PST on basic school supplies
• purchased by Parent Advisory Councils

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PROGRESS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
NEW ERA ACHIEVEMENTS

• Ensure that music, arts and physical education
  are fully funded in B.C.s public schools
• Improved school accreditations
• Maintain and increase education funding
• Provide multi-year funding for school boards

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STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AGENDA

• More parental involvement
• More choices in education
• Accountability framework
• New graduation program
• Transparent and predictable funding

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STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AGENDA

• More parental involvement
• School planning councils
• District reviews
• Safe Schools Task Force
• BCCPAC Advocacy Project and parent handbook
• DPACs legislated in the School Act

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STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AGENDA

• More choices in education
• 43 new choice programs/schools
• Locally developed courses now count towards
  graduation

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STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AGENDA

• Accountability framework
• Accountability contracts
• District reviews
• Deputy minister visits

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STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AGENDA

• New graduation program
• Grade 10 now included
• More relevant to all students
• Locally developed courses now count towards
  graduation

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STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AGENDA

• Transparent and predictable funding
• New, simplified funding formula
• Reduction in the number of categories
• Three-year funding envelopes

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EDUCATION ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Focus on achievement and excellence
• Achievement measures
• Make schools safer for students
• Building on Aboriginal success
• Bringing technology to students
• AchieveBC for parents and students

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PROGRESS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
FOCUS ON ACHIEVEMENT AND EXCELLENCE

• New accountability framework
• Accountability contracts
• District reviews ensure progress
• Parents on school planning councils

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ACHIEVEMENT MEASURES

• Tracking student achievement
• Completion rates up
• Grade 12 students score high on provincial
  exams
• Scholarships in record numbers

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MAKE SCHOOLS SAFER FOR STUDENTS

• Safe, caring and orderly schools
• New standards for codes of conduct
• Enhanced web resources
• Call it Safe Guide

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IMPROVING ABORIGINAL SUCCESS

• Aboriginal accomplishments
• Aboriginal completion rates up
• Signed 12 enhancement agreements
• Published First Nations text book, a first in
  Canada

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BRINGING TECHNOLOGY TO STUDENTS

• More computers in schools
• Upgrading broadband access
• Improving computer literacy
• Piloting e-learning programs

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ACHIEVE BC FOR PARENTS AND STUDENTS

• Education resources on new web site
• School profile tool
• Helping students with homework
• Plotting an education path
• Planning a career

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PROGRESS ON OTHER RECOMMENDATIONS

• Service plan on-line
• De-regulation
• Training for education partners