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) I I AROUND THE SCHOOL BOARD By Bob Willsher, Ward III Trustee, N/N Board of Education The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, Wednesday, January 26,1994 19 Education Z J As you can see from the revised title of this column your public school board has a new name. The board received approval from the Minister last week for the name change. While this difference will be transparent to most, the name change is important to those of us who represent represent the largest municipality in the board. The change will be implemented , on a gradual basis. The new name will appear as supplies need to be re- , plcnishcd, as repairs to signs and other other identifiers arise. We can implement implement this change at minimal cost. Recently we received the Grade 12 Provincial Writing Review results. When compared to die Provincial results results our students, generally, have done well. There is room for improvement. improvement. Board staff, from the Director Director down to the Classroom Teacher, Teacher, is busy analyzing the results and enveloping action plans to implement changes. There will be a report concerning concerning the board-wide results presented presented at the February Education Committee. ■ On January 111 attended the regular regular meeting with the Municipality of Clarington and the local Separate School Board. These meetings have been held regularly since the last election and arc most beneficial. Durham College Announces New Board Governors The Council of Regents recently announced the addition of Sharon Young and Alex Williamson to the Durham College Board of Governors. i ■ ■: WF iSil A if |. - ' Sharon Young Sharon Y oung, a resident of Cour- tice, is City Editor for the Oshawa Times. Active in the community, ■ Sharon is past president of the Oshawa Folk Arts Council, vice- president of Parkview Place, vice- president of the Gift of Christmas Food and Toy Drive, president and founder of the Effingham Cottager's !| Association and secretary-treasurer j of the Union Rod and Gun Club of Oshawa. She is also a member of the ; Kiwanis Club of Oshawa. Sharon was the recipient of the YWCA Woman of Distinction Award (workforce), (workforce), a volunteer award from the . Ministiy of Citizenship, and Olympic Celebration award as well as numcr-. ous awards for help given to local organizations. organizations. Previous to joining the Board of Governors, Sharon had tak- ; cn a variety of courses from Durham College. v '"V* * At the last meeting we were able to share information ranging from minor local issues to those that impact impact both school boards and the town. There are many issues that we arc finding can more effectively be addressed addressed together rather than on our own. The municipality is still growing growing faster than school boards can manage. We depend upon provincial grants to build new schools. These grants are not readily available. The growth needs to be managed so that our children do not spend their entire school years in portables. These regular regular meetings create an understanding of each partner's responsibilities and needs. The leadership of Mayor Hamre has been instrumental in keeping keeping the meetings focused. The Board has been planning a scries scries of meetings to obtain input from parents and the community. The purpose purpose is to provide an open forum for community concerns. Much has been printed in the past few years about the need for more input from parents and the community in general. This is an ideal chance for the board to listen to the community. The important part will be the development of action plans to implement change to address those concerns. The meeting for the Courtice ASG was held on January 15. The Bowmanville Bowmanville and Clarke ASG meetings will beheld within the next month. One of the major issues facing education education is the recommendations of the Fair Tax Commission. Clearly v/e need to see a change in how education education is funded. The burden on the property owner will not be tolerated much longer. I fear that we may resort resort to the American system of hold a vote on what level of spending and what projects should be undertaken. In my opinion, this is not a system that is in the best interest of children. The Fair Tax Commission was badly split.on what to do. The direction direction seem to be to replace, in part, the current property tax system with an income tax. The revenues generated by this tax would.be passed along to school boards. Boards would still be able to generate up to ten percent of their provincial grants by way of a local local levy. It is about time we simplified the tax system in this country. We create thousands of jobs and incur millions of dollars in cost by designing a complex, complex, and difficult to understand, tax system. I don't see any improvement for the woes of funding education through the current Fair Tax Commission Commission recommendations. Public Invited to Open House at Durham Christian High School ■ jlglggggl I Durham Christian High School held an Open House on January 13 for persons wishing to leam more about the school's programs. Some of the audience in attendance is shown above, awaiting a performance performance by the school's drama group. Alex Williamson Alex Williamson, a resident of Uxbridge owns three GM automotive sales and service businesses in Ux- aridge and King City and employs aver 100 people. Alex has owned and aperated a stock farm (cattle and sheep) since 1967. Property dcvclop- nent, real estate and property man- igcmcnt arc also among his business ntcrcsts, Alex has been involved in lie community, serving on the Ux- aridge Public School Board, Ontario Gounlry School Board and the Dur- uun School Board. He is an Elder in he Presbyterian Church in Uxbridge, Dhairman of the Uxbridge CAUSE Committee, and a member of the leart and Stroke Committee for Ux- aridge Township. The Durham College Board of Governors is comprised of 17 members, members, Twelve members are appointed lay the Council of Regents from nominations nominations representative of the college -egitani four members are appointed ay the Council of Regents following individual elections lay the college's undent body, and academic, administrative administrative and support stuff respectively; mil the college president is, ex ofli- :io, a voting member of the Ixaard. Members are appointed lor terms of iliree years and may ho reappointed for an additional three year period. 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