BC Gov News

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.

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. 

The Province and the Langley school district are tackling rapid community growth and increasing student enrolment with more than $67 million to create more seats, classrooms and a new school for students and families in the Willoughby Slope area.

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.

Students at Dr. Annie B. Jamieson Elementary will start heading to classes in a safer seismically upgraded school in 2019 thanks to a $13.1 million investment by the provincial government.

With three elementary school expansion projects now complete and construction underway on a new secondary school in the Clayton North area, 380 new seats are ready for Surrey students and 1,500 more are on the way.