Circle the globe 825 times and you will have travelled 33 million kilometres, the distance B.C. school buses travel each year. Through its annual fleet renewal program, government is providing $11 million for 31 school districts around the province to purchase a total of 96 new buses.

The gymnasium of Richard Bulpitt Elementary was filled with the sound of music as students and teachers, along with Education Minister Peter Fassbender and the Langley Board of Education, officially opened the school.

More than 20,000 enthusiastic students and teachers filled Rogers Arena, as Premier Christy Clark joined world role models Kofi Annan, Martin Luther King III as well the Hon. Roméo A. Dallaire for We Day in Vancouver.

A new $14-million elementary school serving a rich cultural tapestry of students was officially opened by Education Minister Peter Fassbender.

A local high school student was at the controls of an excavator today for the ceremonial ground-breaking of the new NorKam Trades Centre of Excellence. The student, 17 -year- old Joey Kineshanko made the first dig to the cheers of NorKam students and construction workers.

An innovative approach launched last year to increase the number of B.C. children who are engaged, competent readers is seeing great success.

The province's largest school district officially unveiled 180 new student spaces as Education Minister Peter Fassbender and Surrey-Panorama MLA Marvin Hunt helped open a nearly $6-million, eight-classroom addition to T.E. Scott Elementary.

Canadian cyclist Ryder Hesjedal joined Education Minister Peter Fassbender, school district officials and community members to break ground on the new $40.8-million Royal Bay Secondary school and to name a new road after Hesjedal - Ryder Hesjedal Way.