Education Policy
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BC school districts spend millions fighting families instead of educating children
When parents hire lawyers to enforce their children’s right to education, people say they’re “taking money from the classroom.” But when districts spend millions on legal fees fighting those same parents? Silence. Vancouver…
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BC teacher negotiations: what parents need to know
Negotiations between BC’s 52,000 public school teachers and the provincial government reached an impasse in mid-January 2026, stalling over classroom conditions, workload pressures, and the resources required to meet student needs. The contract…
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Why are disabled children still being excluded from BC public schools?
The BC NDP inherited a crisis and chose to manage its appearance rather than confront its scale For eight years, the BC NDP has governed this province promising investments in social infrastructure, commitments…
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FAQ on school exclusion economics
Why are disabled children still being excluded from BC public schools after 8 years of NDP government? The BC NDP inherited a profoundly broken system from 16 years of BC Liberal austerity and…
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Scope of budget cuts USA vs BC
There are many ways to dismantle public education. Some leaders do it slowly, through attrition and austerity, with spreadsheets that flatten need into numbers. Others do it suddenly, with executive orders and mass…
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From Trump’s education cuts to BC’s funding shifts: a comparative analysis
When a government says it wants to make education more efficient, it rarely means more just. The language of improvement—streamlining, restoring greatness, rebalancing budgets—is often the first sign that something vital is about…
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Debility is the design: How engineered scarcity punishes complex children in BC schools
In British Columbia, families are told that public education is inclusive, progressive, and governed by principles of equity. But for thousands of disabled children, school is a place of attrition—where support is delayed…
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What does school funding have to do with collective punishment? Everything.
The phrase collective punishment might conjure images of authoritarian regimes or military retaliation—of innocent people punished for the actions of others, held accountable as a group rather than as individuals with rights, histories, and specific…
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On gaslighting and grief in BC schools
There’s a particular kind of heartbreak that comes not just from watching your child suffer, but from realising that the people responsible for that suffering will never acknowledge it—will never name the harm,…
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When diagnosis comes too late: autistic girls and BC education outcomes
A new longitudinal study out of British Columbia reveals something many families already know: autistic girls are being overlooked—and the consequences show up all the way through school. Using over 4,000 anonymised student…
