Education plateformes
Voici ce que les candidats Saanich North and the Islands, et leurs partis, promettent.Adult learning
BC Liberals
- Create a Work Experience for Students programme with the federal govt.
- Streamline registrations and credentialing for apprenticeship training.
- Bring trades competency into the K-12 system.
- Have secondary school trades programme begin credentialling earlier.
Funding for public education
BC Greens
[...] This would include:
- Addressing the continued disparities in wages, class size and composition between districts;
- Access to speech-language pathologists and school psychologists, and develop new resources for students with special needs.
- This starts with the development of a new funding formula that supports a 21st century education system.
- Double the funding of the B.C. Access Grant to help support post-secondary part-time students, and those enrolled in multi-year programs.
— From The BC Greens' Plan for a More Equitable and Sustainable BC.
Meal programmes
BC NDP
BC Greens
Proposals would be developed by the district to ensure local needs are addressed;
Funding would be conditional on ensuring the program integrated nutrition into the curriculum and showed how the plan would eliminate the stigma associated with accessing food programming.
— From The BC Greens' Plan for a More Equitable and Sustainable BC.
Mental health and schools
BC NDP
BC Greens
BC Liberals
New schools
BC Liberals
Post-secondary
BC NDP
BC Greens
Racism and reconciliation
BC Greens
School infrastructure
BC NDP
- Expand the Playground Fund to more schools.
- Invest in school infrastructure focusing on meeting seismic requirements and climate change and energy efficiency standards.
BC Liberals
School tuition
BC NDP
- Strengthen existing Tuition Fee Limit Policy to make sure institutions don't increase fees beyond prescribed limits.
- Expand tuition waivers to all former youth in care, regardless of age.
BC Liberals
Schools and COVID
BC NDP
- Install new ventilation systems, plexiglass barriers in key areas, and comprehensive cleaning stations.
- Ensure more hours of cleaning in all schools.
- Fast-track improvements to online and remote learning.
We'll invest in more computers and tablets, more training for teachers and support staff, and in new ways to improve social e-learning that promotes group interactions between students and teachers.
— From Working for You.
BC Greens
- Fund operating grants for school districts at the same level as 2019/2020, so that lower enrolment during COVID doesn't result in less funding.
- Maintain additional COVID funding for PPE & online learning.
- Give every school the resources to develop remote & hybrid learning options.
BC Liberals
- Implement a province-wide framework for hybrid and online learning options.
- Promote distance learning programmes.
- Restore $12 million of funding for Independent Distributed Learning programmes.
Special learning needs
BC Liberals
- Increase supports and earlier assessments for identifying learning needs.
- Provide school instruction that meets diverse learning needs.