Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Vancouver School Board (VSB), officially the Board of Education of School District No. 39 (Vancouver), is a school district based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. A board of nine elected trustees governs this school district that serves the city of Vancouver and the University Endowment Lands .
The Transition Program for Gifted Students, often called the University Transition Program (UTP), is an accelerated secondary school program for gifted students funded by the BC Ministry of Education's Provincial Resource Program with hosting, educational support and financial assistance from the University of British Columbia (UBC), and administered by the Vancouver School Board in Vancouver ...
Many school districts were in existence prior to British Columbia joining Canada in 1871. Some districts were just single schools or even one teacher. Traditionally school districts in British Columbia were either municipal, which were named after the municipality such as Vancouver or Victoria, or rural and given a regional name.
Jul. 27—Advancing equity work and addressing pandemic recovery is, in part, what has the Vancouver Public Schools board's longest-serving director believing the district's brightest days are ahead.
A Vancouver stop sign decorated in protest against the Ideal Mini School relocation and the VSB. In April 2023, the Vancouver School Board (VSB) announced that the Ideal Mini School would be relocated to Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School in the fall of 2023, which is two blocks away from its original location next to Laurier Elementary School. [23]
The legislation, passed in 1953, supersedes the Vancouver Incorporation Act, 1921 and grants the city more and different powers than other communities possess under BC's Municipalities Act. The city is governed by the 10-member city council, a nine-member school board, and a seven-member park board, all elected for four-year terms.
The land that the mall now stands on was the location of Mount Pleasant School, originally built in 1888. In 1971, the Vancouver School Board decided to lease the land for development in order to provide funds for the board. The contract, worth $2.5 million was awarded to Royal Oak Holdings (currently Beedie Development LTD).
Enjoy a classic game of Hearts and watch out for the Queen of Spades!