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FRIDAY, September 12, 2014
Volume 9 Issue 10
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Strike could extend school year for some
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Georgia Thomas (left) and Donna Kopp leaf through the portfolio of local wood artist Joerg Jung. Jung was hired to do wood carvings all day long at the annual Skeena Valley Fall Fair held in Thornhill Sept. 6. Jung was giving away small carvings for free and had his larger carvings on display as well.
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VICTORIA - 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.” Fassbender’s comments were made before he and BC Teachers’ Federation president Jim Iker disagreed on the idea of asking for binding arbitration to settle on wages and benefits so that schools would open while arbitration took place. 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 this week, close to 75 per cent of parents of eligible public school children age 12 and under had signed up for the $40 payments, which are expected to be made as a lump sum after the strike ends. Other costs that the province continues to incur while schools are closed include salaries for school administration as well as support staff with other unions that are eligible to be compensated for pay lost for not crossing teacher picket lines. Payments to support staff not crossing teacher picket lines could hit $5 million a day once all their union locals ratify new contracts. Education ministry officials said school districts would be consulted on any potential changes to the school year to mitigate the strike. Talk of calendar adjustments is another sign of possible long-term implications from the strike as the dispute enters what should have been the second week of classes for the new school year. Independent schools are starting to get more inquiries.
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 20TH, 2014 Look for more details on the back page of next weeks Northern Connector
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