Correspondance at School Board meeting regarding possible changes to electoral areas for school trustees

April 11, 2018Uncategorizedby andrea

There appears to be discussion about the Ministry of Education changing the current at large election of trustees in this district to areas, such as 5 trustees from Prince George, 1 from Mackenzie, and one from the Robson Valley.

According to the current student numbers, this is the registration of students per city for current public schools in SD57:

City	Sum of Enrolment	Percentage
Hixon	33	0.2%
Mackenzie	596	4.5%
McBride	136	1.0%
Prince George	12,307	92.3%
Valemount	230	1.7%
Willow River	29	0.2%
Grand Total	13,331	100.0%

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The District Parent Advisory Council of School District 57, known as "DPAC", is the umbrella that brings together Parent Advisory Councils (PACs) and parents in School District 57 (SD57). We work with 41 schools in Prince George and the surrounding area including Hixon, Mackenzie, McBride, and Valemount.

We acknowledge the unceded ancestral lands of the Lheidli T'enneh Nation, McLeod Lake Indian Band, and Simpcw First Nation on which SD57 operates

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