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Students at South Lincoln High School took to the streets of Smithville last Wednesday to protest the District School Board of Niagara’s decision to close the facility at the end of the current school year.
DSBN pulls plug on high schools By Mike Williscraft NewsNow Grimsby and Lincoln administrations have very different views on last Tuesday’s decision by the District School Board of Niagara to close all three Niagara West public high schools in favour of a super school. Grimsby council passed a notice of motion
Monday night which would seek to have the Ministry of Education implement “a retroactive “smart moratorium” on disputed school closings to provide the opportunity for the Ministry of Education, school boards and municipalities to work together to develop policies addressing such issues as planning for declining enrolments, a mutually agreed
upon Accommodation Review Committee process, a review of funding to rural and small community schools, and transparency and accountability between municipalities and school boards.” Conversely, Lincoln Mayor Sandra Easton said her administration understands and accepts See ARC, Page 2