Government is providing $500,000 to this year’s Raise-a-Reader campaign to support community-based literacy programs for children and families throughout British Columbia.

Education Minister Mike Bernier released the following statement clarifying utilization targets for school construction in B.C.:

Families in the Cowichan Valley school district will no longer pay fees for students riding school buses within their schools’ catchment area thanks to $283,524 in funding under the new provincial Student Transportation Fund.

Families in the Abbotsford school district will no longer pay fees for students riding school buses within their schools’ catchment area thanks to $253,969 in funding under the new provincial Student Transportation Fund.

Families in the Chilliwack school district will no longer pay fees for students riding school buses within their schools’ catchment area and will also benefit from improved transportation services thanks to $329,456 in funding under the new provincial Student Transportation Fund.

Families in the Kootenay-Columbia school district will no longer pay fees for students riding school buses within their schools’ catchment area and will also benefit from improved transportation services thanks to $242,977 in funding under the new provincial Student Transportation Fund.

Students need to connect with the skills required in our changing world – and two Ministry of Education programs aim to do just that by helping school districts connect kids with  opportunities in skilled trades and tech training. 

Sabha Ghani was destined to be a teacher. As a child, she loved to play school, and she was always pretending to be the teacher.

A group of kindergarten students who will be the graduating class of 2029 are B.C.’s first students whose education will be entirely under B.C.’s new curriculum.