OVER 200 SCHOOL BOARD WORKERS FROM ACROSS CANADA TO MEET IN REGINA

[Mar 2, 2009 10:26 AM]

School board workers are committed to the promotion of healthy, respectful school environments despite cuts to funding public education.

 

Over 200 school board workers from across Canada are gathering in Regina to discuss issues facing public education and school board workers in particular.

 

 

“Whether it is cuts to custodial services or diminished resources aimed at handling more aggressive special needs kids, the attack on public education through chronic underfunding and contracting out is felt everyday in classrooms across Canada,“ said CUPE National President Paul Moist.

 

 

Open sessions to the media and agenda highlights

 

 

March 2^nd

 

7:00 p.m.       CUPE National President Paul Moist opens the meeting and addresses delegates. Keynote speaker, Barbara Coloroso, internationally recognized speaker and author in the areas of parenting, teaching, school discipline, non-violent conflict resolution and reconciliatory justice addresses delegates.

 

 

March 3^rd

 

9:00 a.m.       Paul O’Donnell, CUPE national researcher, to give overview of sectoral bargaining.

 

 

10:30 a.m.     Barbara Coloroso addresses delegates on violence in our schools

 

 

March 4^th

 

11:00 a.m.     CUPE National Secretary-Treasurer Claude Généreux gives closing remarks.

 

 

The National School Boards meeting will be held from March 2 to 4 at the Regina Inn Hotel,

1975 Broad Street, Regina, SK.

 

 

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For more information please contact:

 

Beth Smillie – (306) 229-4908

 

 

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