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Province eyes longer school year Fassbender aims to make Grade 12 students ‘whole’ Jeff Nagel and Kevin Laird Black Press
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Music man Local composer Jared Richardson, 20, has big dreams for his music career. The young View Royal resident has started a kickstarter campaign aiming for $45,000 to have the Victoria Symphony orchestra record a full-length studio album composed by him. The dream isn’t so far fetched as you would think. Symphony music director Tania Miller, who has worked with Richardson in the past, said the young musician has a bright future in music. For the story, please turn to page A7.
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Education Minister Peter Fassbender says the province may take extraordinary steps to ensure senior secondary students’ school year is not cut short by the teachers strike. That could mean adding days to the school calendar later in the year, he said, to ensure Grade 12 students in particular complete their courses and get all the marks they need. “Do you put it on the end of the year? Do you take it out of Spring Break? Do you take it out of Christmas holidays? My staff are looking at all of the options,” Fassbender said. “It’s going to depend on how long this drags out. Whatever length of time it takes to get this settled, we will do everything we can to make sure the school year is kept whole for those students.” It’s unclear how the government would finance adding extra days of classes later when all of the $12 million per day in strike savings may be consumed by the province’s offer of $40-a-day payments to parents. As of last week, 63 per cent of parents of eligible public school children under 13 had signed up for the $40 payments, which are expected to be made as a lump sum after the strike ends. PLEASE SEE: Bills mount for Victoria district as strike continues, Page A6
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