WL Council at its' Tuesday meeting will consider submitting a NCLGA (North Central Local Government Association) Resolution on School District funding for consideration at the 2010 NCLGA Conference in Houston ,BC
I believe what Council is doing is fundamentally wrong. There is the "unspoken" rule that local governments do not get involved directly on school board matters. After all, that is why you elect a 7-member Board of Education. If local governments (regional district boards/municipal councils') are prepared to get involved in school board matters (funding, closure of schools, etc) then let's do what Diana French suggested in one of her previous columns in the Williams Lake Tribune and dissolve all school boards and transfer responsibility to regional district boards as they cover the same region as some school boards (like Cariboo-Chilcotin and Quesnel combined) and redirect those dollars in education.
Otherwise, let's recognize that locally elected Boards' of Education are responsible for the running of schools and advocating for ensuring that sufficient dollars are available from Victoria to run the local school district. The Boards' of Education also have advocacy groups (like NCLGA and UBCM) to help advance their causes to Victoria and let local government deal with matters that they are both charged with, from Victoria, and to which they were elected to do
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