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WEDNESDAY
APRIL 25 2012
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The Burnaby Village Museum’s carousel turns 100 this year. A10
Mayor blasts RCMP deal Wanda Chow wchow @burnabynewsleader.com
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A sure sign that summer isn’t far off, an ice cream truck is in for repairs at a garage on Kingsway.
Report cards out by end of month Wanda Chow wchow@burnabynewsleader.com
Burnaby students and parents can expect to receive their ¿rst report cards of the year during the week of April 30, according to a letter to parents from Burnaby school district superintendent Claudio Morelli. The move is in response to an April 20 B.C. Labour Relations Board ruling that teachers are to prepare
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report cards, with assessments dating back to the start of the school year. “For students in K-3, report cards will include performance scale assessments for each subject. For students in grades 4-12, report cards will include letter grades. Report cards will include anecdotal comments if the student is not yet meeting expectations.” Meanwhile, 73 per cent of teachers
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extra-curricular activities. “Teachers struggle with this because these activities bring so much joy to our engagement with students. We know this will mean the loss of some highly-valued activities, and we sincerely regret that. But we have to look at the bigger picture and the longer term,” said BCTF president and Burnaby teacher Susan Lambert.
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Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan believes the provincial government shoulders much of the blame for the current state of the proposed new 20-year RCMP contract. A meeting with other mayors, the RCMP and province on the issue last week, “left more questions unanswered than answered,” Corrigan said. “It’s apparent to me, in my opinion, that the provincial government went in and negotiated a contract that was favourable to them and left almost all of the issues that deal with local government undecided.” The province received a 70-30 split of costs with the federal government but despite local governments’ request, municipalities saw no improvement in their deal, which remains at a 90-10 split, with Ottawa taking the smaller share in both. “The province never seriously negotiated that on our behalf.” Please see HIGH, A2