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Provincial/Federal Policy and Processes

2009.09B Parent Choice Regarding FSAs

That The Minister meet with parent and teacher reps to discuss measures to restore confidence in the FSAs.

2009.08 Ensuring successful I.E.P.'s for all designated students

That BCCPAC urge the Ministry of Education to mandate and provide the necessary resources to provide specific review policies to ensure the success of all I.E.P.'s for children with special needs designation regardless of the level of need.

2009.07 Stopping the Misrepresentation of FSA Data used by Fraser Institute

That BCCPAC work with the Ministry of Education and other provincial education associations to change procedures to ensure that results from the Foundation Skills Assessments continue to be released to school districts, schools and parents yet not to the general public in order to stop outside organizations from using/manipulating the data to support their needs.

2008.20 Limits on the Term of Office for School Trustees

That BCCPAC urge the Minister of Education to amend the School Act and other relevant Legislation to limit the term of office of School Trustees to a maximum of three consecutive terms; however, there shall be no limit on the total number of terms any Trustee may serve.

2007.15 Consultation Period for School Closure

That BCCPAC requests the Minister of Education to amend Ministerial Order 320/02, School Opening and Closure Order, to require school boards to give a minimum of 120 days public notice to close a specific school prior to the decision being made.

2007.16 Provincial Joint Stakeholder Conference

That BCCPAC work with the Ministry of Education and the representative organizations for school trustees, students, teachers, support staff, and principals and vice-principals to organize and hold at least one event annually where the grassroots of education stakeholders can meet to share ideas and concerns;
And that BCCPAC request some funding for this type of initiative be provided equally to each member organization to the number of individuals they represent, to help defray the costs of holding and attending the event

2007.17 Question Period for Public School Board Meetings

That BCCPAC request the Minister of Education to propose an amendment to the School Act making it mandatory for School Boards to have a question period during regularly scheduled public board meetings and to have those questions and responses recorded in school board minutes.

2006.14 School District Restructuring

That BCCPAC recommend to the Government of BC that any restructuring of the Education system does not include consolidating, regionalizing, or changing School Boards in any other manner that would reduce their local autonomy or availability to the communities they serve.

2005.21 Item-Level Provincial Exam Reports for School Planning Councils (SPCs)

That BCCPAC ask the Ministry of Education to provide item-level provincial exam results to secondary School Planning Councils, free of charge.

2005.22 Customized Item-Level FSA Reports for School Planning Councils (SPCs)

That BCCPAC ask the Ministry of Education to provide to all School Planning Councils, free of charge, customized item-level FSA reports for all categories of students present in their school, (including gender, French Immersion, Aboriginal, ESL, and special needs) with district, provincial, and year-to-year comparisons.

2005.23 FSA Cohort Data for School Planning Councils (SPCs)

That BCCPAC ask the Ministry of Education to provide, free of charge to School Planning Councils upon request, cohort FSA data reports as produced by Edudata, which distinguish between students that wrote both Grade 4 and Grade 7 tests in the same school from those that wrote them in different schools, and for all subgroups of students present in the school, with district and provincial comparisons.

2005.24 Individual Student FSA Data Reports

That BCCPAC ask the Ministry of Education to distribute to each parent a report showing their child’s FSA test results including an item-level analysis, as produced for schools and districts by Edudata, http://edudata.educ.ubc.ca/.

2005.25 Grade Four Class Size Limits

That BCCPAC urge the Ministry of Education to set a class size limit for Grade Four students, as is presently in place for Kindergarten to Grade 3.

2004.25 Process for Electing the Student Representative on School Planning Councils

That BCCPAC urge the Ministry of Education to amend paragraph 8.1(3)(d) of the School Act regarding the appointment of students to School Planning Councils, to include an election process similar to that used for electing parent and teacher representatives, in order to enable students to elect their own representatives to School Planning Councils.

2004.27 Including Impartial Community Members on School Board Appeals Committees

That BCCPAC urge the Ministry of Education to amend the School Act, Appeals, sub-section 11(5): A Board may establish one or more committees for the purpose of investigating appeals under this section to A board must establish one or more committees for the purpose of investigating appeals under this section and must appoint two or more impartial community members to each committee.

2004.28 Amend the School Act regarding School Trustees’ attendance at meetings

That BCCPAC urge the Minister of Education to amend the School Act, Part 4 School Trustees, Division 6 Holding Office, section 52, Disqualification for failure to make oath or attend meetings, sub-section 2. Amend to read:

2) A trustee may only be absent for one 3 month period during their term of office unless the absence is because of illness or with the leave of the board. The office of the member is deemed to be vacant and the person who held the office is disqualified from holding office as a trustee until the next general election.

2003.22 SPC Implementation Guidelines

That BCCPAC and the Ministry of Education work together to generate a provincially consistent interpretation and implementation for School Planning Councils making all parents welcome at SPC meetings in order to ensure an open and transparent process for the development of goals for each school.

2003.25 Release Date of FSA Results

That BCCPAC urge the Minister of Education to release Foundation Skills Assessment (FSA) results to schools and districts by August 1 of each year.

2003.26 Ministerial Audit or Review of School Districts’ School Planning Council Policies

That BCCPAC urgently request the Ministry of Education to initiate an audit or review of District School Planning Council Policies in the first year in order to ensure that all policies are congruent with the legislation and the intent of the legislation.

2003.45 Public Education Tracking Project

That BCCPAC send yearly surveys to all PACs and DPACs across British Columbia to monitor and track changes relevant to all aspects of delivering the services to our students.

2002.19 Class Size Maximums for Grades 4 – 7

That BCCPAC lobby the Ministry of Education to impose maximum class sizes for Grades 4–7, not withstanding the exclusions as defined by School Act Regulations.

2002.23C Commission for Canada’s Children

That Canadian Home and School Federation advocate for the creation of a Commissioner for Canada’s Children.

2002.24C Implement Minimum National Standard of Education in Canada

That CHSF actively support and promote a minimum national standard for education;
And that CHSF actively encourage the Federal Government to establish a department to implement and oversee a national standard of education.

2002.18 Education Exemption to Copyright Law—Federal

That BCCPAC support the Education Exception to the Copyright Act as advocated by the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada (CMEC) Copyright Consortium.

2001.1 Release of Foundation Skills Assessment (FSA) Results to PACs and Individual Results to Parents

That BCCPAC urge the Ministry of Education to continue to release the annual Foundation Skills Assessment (FSA) school level results to PACs and individual student results to parents.

2000.4 Education as an Essential Service

That Resolution 1993.1 be rescinded and replaced with the following: “That BCCPAC lobby the government of BC to amend the Labour Relations Code (Bill 84)), Part 6, Section 72, to include ‘education’ wherever the phrase ‘health, safety, or welfare of residents of British Columbia’ is stated.”

2000.6 Corporate Sponsorship in the Schools

That the BCCPAC lobby, the Ministry of Education and the BC School Trustees’ Association to recommend that all Districts have in place a committee which includes the various partner groups in education, including parents, whose purpose it would be to examine and establish appropriate limits and controls on Corporate Sponsorship in the schools.

2000.7 Corporate-Sponsored Educational Materials, Videos, Contests and Incentive Programs in the Schools

That BCCPAC lobby the Ministry of Education and the BC School Trustees’ Association to recommend that all Districts have in place a committee, which includes the various partner groups in education, including parents, whose purpose it would be to examine and establish appropriate limits and controls on the use of corporate sponsored educational materials, videos, contests and incentives in the schools.

2000.8 Advertising in the Schools

That BCCPAC lobby the Ministry of Education and the BC School Trustees’ Association to prohibit commercial advertising which targets the students in the schools.
Advertising Defined: the oral, written or graphic statement made by the seller in any manner in connection with the solicitation of business which calls for the public’s attention to it by emphasizing the desirable qualities so as to arouse a desire to buy or patronize in exchange for financial payment.
Advertising Is Not: the sale of goods and services to the districts, schools or the PACs for market value, which have brand names, trademarks, logos, or tags for product or service identification purposes; nor is it the placement of vending machines in the schools.

2000.19 Class Size Limits, Intermediate and Secondary

That BCCPAC express to the Ministry of Education, BCPSEA and BCSTA, parents’ concerns that strictly limiting class sizes, in the BC Teachers’ Collective Agreement, for intermediate and, particularly, secondary schools will cause undue hardship to students and compromise their education;
And that BCCPAC lobby the Ministry of Education to increase funding to school districts to allow them to work, with flexibility, on reducing class sizes.

2000.26C Youth News Network

That Canadian Home and School Federation recommend to the other provincial Federation to petition provincial Ministers and Ministries of Education to oppose commercial initiatives, such as the Youth News Network (YNN), into our nation’s classrooms that force students to participate.

1999.3 Video Usage – Legality

That video usage in all school districts abide by the Canadian Law specifically C-42 Copyright Act, i.e. to legally show a video to any group at school, or on school functions, schools must first obtain a site license for Public Performance Rights. This resolution is a directive to Ministry of Education, British Columbia Teachers’ Federation and British Columbia School Trustees’ Association.

1999.4 Video Usage – Selection Criteria

That BCCPAC lobby the Ministry of Education and the BCSTA to ensure that all Districts have in place a committee, which includes parents, to apply evaluation and selection criteria for all non-recommended education resource materials, i.e. videos referred to in the Ministry of Education program order and pursuant to 3(2) of the Education Program Guide (M165/93).

1999.5 Video Usage IRP Relevance

That BCCPAC lobby the BC School Trustees’ Association, the BC Teachers’ Federation and the Ministry of Education to ensure that the criteria for selection of non-recommended learning resources, especially videos and CD ROMS, be directly tied to specific learning outcomes as outlined in the Integrated Resource Packages.

1996.9 Public Education Restructuring

That the membership direct the BCCPAC Board of Directors to continue to advocate on behalf of the parents and students in any further public education restructuring discussions.

1993.7C Copyright Legislation

That the Government of Canada ensures that the fair use of the copyright material by educational institutions is not compromised as a result of the second phase of the copyright legislation.