All the presentations to the school board have now been posted here.
Read the presentations
Posted by saveconnaught on April 7, 2014
https://saveourconnaught.ca/2014/04/07/read-the-presentations/
Public meeting
Posted by saveconnaught on April 4, 2014
https://saveourconnaught.ca/2014/04/04/public-meeting/
Board steam rolls community once again
“In our community and school community, there is a general consensus that we would like the Board to pursue repairs to keep Connaught School open until at least June 2015, or longer,” Cathedral Area parent Kate Smart told the board of education on March 25.
“This position is supported by the Cathedral Area Community Association, by Save our Connaught, by several members of the Cathedral Village Business Association, by every single person I’ve spoken to in my neighbourhood, and by the vast majority of the Connaught School community who attended the Feb. 25 meeting in the Connaught Gym.
Posted by saveconnaught on March 30, 2014
https://saveourconnaught.ca/2014/03/30/board-steam-rolls-community-once-again/
Eleventh hour battle to keep Connaught open
Connaught School supporters will be fighting an eleventh hour battle to keep their school open tonight. Trustees will consider a recommendation to close the school in June, based mainly on liability and insurance issues. A recent community survey shows the vast majority of Connaught School families and residents want the school to stay open and they want to be involved in developing a satisfactory renewal plan.
The province recently approved funding for renewal planning but Regina Public won’t get a budget approval for construction until April 2015 at earliest. Parents have raised concerns that the rush to relocate Connaught students into hastily organized facilities is more costly than making recommended repairs to stay open, and will put their kids’ health and learning experiences at risk. As well, a poorly planned transition is poised to jeopardize future enrolment viability.
Posted by saveconnaught on March 25, 2014
https://saveourconnaught.ca/2014/03/25/eleventh-hour-battle-to-keep-connaught-open/
Action for Connaught
Write a letter today
Here is a fact sheet and instructions for writing letters to the Leader-Post and the board chair. If you have not written a letter to the editor yet, do it today.
Contact the Minister The Connaught SCC’s request for interim funding to make repairs was read out in the Legislature yesterday. There were few solid answers. Please send Don Morgan an email, and ask him for the funds to keep Connaught open for the coming year, and into the future.
Posted by saveconnaught on March 6, 2014
https://saveourconnaught.ca/2014/03/06/action-for-connaught/
Building conservationist to address school board tonight
A possible decision to close Connaught School may be based on incomplete and contradictory information, according to a specialist in building conservation.
June Botkin of Botkin Historic Building Conservators has been reviewing a series of engineering assessments of the school, and sharing them with specialists across North America and internationally. She will present some preliminary observations to the school board tonight.
Posted by saveconnaught on March 4, 2014
https://saveourconnaught.ca/2014/03/04/building-conservationist-to-address-school-board-tonight/
Today
Posted by saveconnaught on March 2, 2014
https://saveourconnaught.ca/2014/03/02/come-in-from-the-cold/
Local mom tackles Connaught problems head on
A Cathedral Area parent has launched a fundraising campaign to finance the repairs needed to keep Connaught School open in September. Kate Smart decided to take action after learning it would cost only an estimated $20,000 to satisfy an engineer’s recommendation for safe school operations in 2014-2015.
Posted by saveconnaught on February 27, 2014
https://saveourconnaught.ca/2014/02/27/local-mom-tackles-connaught-problems-head-on/
Board to hold feedback meeting
Cathedral Area residents will gather at the Connaught School gym this Tuesday evening to discuss options for the school’s future with school board administrators. An engineer’s report states repairs to the front steps and a portion of the southeast corner must be made if the school is to remain open in September. At a meeting with school council members last week, a board representative said the repairs are estimated to cost about $20,000.
Posted by saveconnaught on February 24, 2014
https://saveourconnaught.ca/2014/02/24/board-to-hold-feedback-meeting/
School community wants action, not closure
Community members are calling for action to avoid the closure of Ecole Connaught Community School. An engineering consultant’s report that includes a recommendation to close the school in June was tabled at last night’s school board meeting.
“Displacing 350 students in the middle of a population boom should be the last idea on the list, not the first,” said Rene Dumont, chair of Save Our Connaught Heritage. Read the full post »
Posted by realrenewal on February 12, 2014
https://saveourconnaught.ca/2014/02/12/school-community-wants-action-not-closure/
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