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Wednesday, September 24, 2014
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Superintendent says school year will go as originally planned Devon MacKenzie News staff
After teachers agreed to a six-year contract with the provincial government on Thursday of last week, school has been in since Monday. And although a total of 14 days of the 2014/15 school year were missed, the superintendent of School District 63, Dr. Keven Elder, says the year will take place as originally planned. “We don’t have any means by which we can add time to the school year, either by hours in a day or by days in a year. So, the year will go on as originally scheduled,” said Elder. “Some people were wondering about removing a week from the two week spring break, but in reality the time from that week was already accounted for Keven Elder by extending the length of the school day, so we would have no net gain of learning time by moving those minutes back in,” he said. Elder continued to say that the plan is for administrative staff to work with teachers, support staff, parents and students. The goal will be to compress certain projects and sections of the curriculum to make sure that the whole curriculum is met properly by the end of the year. PleaSe See: Semesters balanced, page 4
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Bev Elder, right, Administrator of the Sidney Lions Food Bank, and North Saanich Mayor Alice Finall show off swiss chard and fresh apples provided to the food bank by the District of North Saanich from their edible garden. For the story turn to page 3.