More B.C. families will save thousands of dollars every year as over 930 child care spaces moved into the $10 a Day ChildCareBC program during March and April. This brings the total number of $10 a Day child care spaces in B.C. to over 15,000. With these newly converted spaces, offered at 27 additional child …
The general solicitation for new CCRR service providers is now complete, with all applicants being informed of the outcomes. The ministry has applied best practices at every step of the process to ensure the new contracts were awarded in a competitive, fair, and transparent manner. New contracts took effect on April 1.
B.C. educators and K-12 staff are invited to register for the Introduction to Compassionate Systems Framework workshop facilitated by Dr. Mette Boell, Trina Haygaru, and Dr. Peter Senge. Hosted by the Ministry of Education and Child Care and the Center for Systems Awareness, this workshop supports the ministry’s Mental Health in Schools Strategy.
Please share this letter with families/guardians of students in kindergarten to Grade 4 to let them know their child may be eligible for a $1,200 B.C. Training and Education Savings Grant for their post-secondary education.
Grants are available to help school districts and their post-secondary partners administer early childhood education dual credit programs in the 2025 calendar year. Grants provided equal $25,000 per school district partner, plus per course funding. Districts are invited to review and submit an expression of interest questionnaire by May 3 to be considered as a potential project site. …
Annual grants are available to help school districts and post-secondary partners establish or grow regional partnerships that expand capacity for dual credit administration. Resulting programs should focus on in‑demand careers and students who will benefit most from post-secondary transition support.
Discipline outcomes are posted to enhance the transparency of the processes and decisions made with respect to complaints and reports about educators. Recently, a summary of an outcome was posted about a teacher whose certificate was suspended for two days. The outcome has been anonymized to protect the identity of students who were harmed, abused, …
School districts can start preparing their 2024/25 and 2025/26 capital plans for child care using the expanded Capital Asset Planning System (CAPS) beginning April 8. Submissions for 2024/25 will be accepted until May 15, and submissions for 2025/26 will close in alignment with the K-12 capital planning cycle, available in the Capital Planning instructions.
Please remind School Food Coordinators that the ministry will be hosting a Feeding Futures Spring Gathering on May 2 at the Coast Coal Harbour Hotel in Vancouver. This event will bring School Food Coordinators from school districts across the province to network and share information on school food programs. Registration for all School Food Coordinators is …
Discipline outcomes are posted to enhance the transparency of the processes and decisions made with respect to complaints and reports about educators. Recently, an outcome was posted regarding Graham Christopher Bowering whose certificate was previously cancelled and who agreed to a lifetime ban on reapplying or being issued any authorization to teach in the K–12 …
