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www.oakvillebeaver.com The Oakville Beaver, Wednesday August 6, 2008 - 9 Picnic in the park Southeast Oakville residents launch review Southeast Oakville residents angered by the Halton District School Board's July 2 decision to close four area schools are calling for a review. In mid-July the community group Oakville Residents for Public Education announced plans to use the province's Administrative Review of Accommodation Review Process as a method for fighting the board's decision to close Linbrook, Chisholm, New Central and Brantwood schools. The process does not allow for the challenging of the decision based on its merits, but rather focuses on whether the board followed its own accommodation review policies in making the decision. Oakville Residents for Public Education feels this was not the case in this latest accommodation review and as such announced yesterday it had initiated the review process. "The people of southeast Oakville deserve a fair and open process with complete and accurate information before any "The people of southeast Oakville deserve a fair and open process with complete and accurate information before any final decisions are made. Greg McGinnis, Oakville Residents for Public Education MICHAEL IVANIN / OAKVILLE BEAVER EMANCIPATION DAY: Karolyn Smardz Frost, historian, archaeologist and author of I've Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad (2007) signs a book during Emancipation Day Family Picnic at George's Square. The event was organized by The Oakville Museum in partnership with The Canadian Caribbean Association of Halton (CCAH). final decisions are made," said Greg McGinnis, who sits on the group's board of directors. "I do not feel that we have had that process. Instead, it seems like there was a rush to judgment on an issue that dramatically alters the very nature of a long established area of Oakville." The first part of the process, which the group has undertaken, involves the submission of the board's accommodation review policy to the board featuring highlighted sections demonstrating how the policy was violated. In this case Oakville Residents for Public Education have listed a lack of public participation, no alternate accommodation plans for students impacted, appointments to the PARC, no 60 day notice of board's accommodation meeting and an error in bused student numbers, to justify the review Petitions with signatures equal to at least 30 per cent of the affected school's headcount are also needed to begin a review, which the group said it has also submitted to the board. The board now has 30 days to respond to the province on the request for an administrative review. If all the conditions are met the Ministry of Education is required to undertake a review by appointing a facilitator to determine whether the school board accommodation review process was undertaken in a manner consistent with the board's accommodation review policy. These findings will be submitted to the school board who will decide what happens next. Summer Savings PORTABLE VACUUMS When the brand names come from overseas! Buy Canadian for Less!! · · · · Permanent self cleaning filters All steel canister Lifetime warranty Includes electric power hose and head with bare floor brush, crevice tool, upholstery brush and duster brush · 112" waterlift · Homes up to 4,000 sq.ft. · No tax on all portable canister vacuums HUGE INVENTORY!!! STARTING $ 95 AT 69 GRAB BAG EVENT! FRIDAY AUG 8TH & SATURDAY AUG 9TH ONLY $ 399 · 143" waterlift · Homes up to 10,000sq.ft. $ 499 399 Includes a 10 piece set! · Water Purification · Reverse Osmosis System Fill A Grab Bag with Selected Clearance Clothing for just $15.00 Maximum 20pcs/bag. All sales final, no exchanges, refunds or adjustmens. Oakville location only. Friday and Saturday only. $ * Installation included under normal conditions TRAFALGAR RD OAKVILLE VACUUM LTD. CATALOGUE STORE · 31 years in Oakville We Repair all Makes of Vacuum Cleaners & Sewing Machines ¤ MAVIS RD BRITANNIA RD WTrafalgar 2423 g MATHESON BLVD W 198 SPEERS RD. OAKVILLE 905-844-4736 Just west of Kerr Street, beside Money Mart 905-257-5775 www.ouaccanada.com Rd. Unit 1 (South of Dundas) TRAFALGAR RD OAKVILLE DUNDAS ST E DUNDAS ST E UPPER MIDDLE RD MIDDLE RD E E UPPER www.oakvillevac.com www.oakvillebeaver.com