April 19, 2024                                                                                                                    & ...Continue Reading

You're invited.... The Institute for Public Education/BC is inviting you to our upcoming forum and AGM. We’d be very pleased to see you there. Please don’t hesitate to share this invitation with others interested in quality, inclusive, accessible public education. *Keynote address:* *Teacher Shortage, Teacher Supply, Teacher Demand, or Teacher Employment, ensuring access to high quality teachers for BC students. * We’re delighted to have Dr. Dan Laitsch, Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser ...Continue Reading

January 2024                                                                                                    Newsletter 8  IPE/BC News Public Education in a Public Good  Save the date On March 7th from 7:00-9:00 pm, IPE/BC will be holding its AGM and Forum. ...Continue Reading

September 2023                                                                                        Newsletter 7  IPE/BC News Public Education is a Public Good  A brand new school year underway Happy new year to all of the students, teachers, support staff, and administrators in BC’s publ ...Continue Reading

Hello, IPE/BC newsletter subscribers. If, for any reason, you're not able to access the newsletter below, you'll find it online here.   April 2023 Newsletter 6 IPE/BC News Congratulations in order  Congratulations to Budd Hall, Professor Emeritus with the School of Public  Administration and Co-Chair of the UNESCO Chair in Community Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education, who was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Canada at the end of 2022. He was very&n ...Continue Reading

If, for any reason, you are not able to access the newsletter in this email, you can find it online here.   October 2022                                    Newsletter 5 IPE/BC News   Public Education is a Public Interest Many new faces on school boards province-wide As reported by the BC School Trustees’ Association, the recent local elections resulted in 158 brand new public school trustees ...Continue Reading

*             *If, for any reason, you are not able to access the newsletter in this email, you can find it online here.  *                                                                                    *               MAY 2 ...Continue Reading

Setting the record straight on education spending Hello, IPE/Fellows, subscribers, and supporters. We’re pleased to report that the article referenced in our recent newsletter, A Critical Response to "A Short History of K-12 Public School Spending in British Columbia", has now been published by the Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy. IPE/BC Board members, Dan Laitsch, John Malcolmson and Larry Kuehn submitted this thorough analysis in response to an article published in ...Continue Reading

Hello, IPE/BC newsletter subscribers.   Please find attached the January issue of our newsletter reporting to you on the work that the Institute is undertaking and including other items of interest to public education supporters.  ...Continue Reading

Hello, again, IPE/BC contacts.  My apologies, I see that the email address that I included was switched to protected information. You'll find our contact info, including the email address, on page three of the newsletter. Thanks!  ...Continue Reading