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		<title>Pick me &#8211; no way</title>
		<link>http://saveschools.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/pick-me-no-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:04:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just found this quote in a Toronto Sun Article (2nd November 2009)  that shows how school staff want to change community attitudes to school closing.
&#8220;When we finish this first series of (ARCs),&#8221; said Daryl Sage, the board&#8217;s director of strategy and planning, &#8220;as challenging as they will be, when people see the reinvestment of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saveschools.wordpress.com&blog=3678301&post=482&subd=saveschools&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Location, location, location</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:08:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If the board gets away with closing some community schools in the poorer neighbourhoods of the city like Jane/Finch as it is trying to do now for politically convenient reasons how can it benefit financially beacuse as the People for Education Report on school closing wisely states, schools are closed for financial reasons not pedagogical [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saveschools.wordpress.com&blog=3678301&post=476&subd=saveschools&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lets keep an open mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Chair Campbell has asked residents of the Heathercrest  Park area to “keep an open mind.” and I would support him in this sentiment.
The only problem is that an “open mind” could work both ways.
He would like the crowd to go away and rest assured that their betters, the trustees and staff of the TDSB, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saveschools.wordpress.com&blog=3678301&post=473&subd=saveschools&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What a timeline</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:43:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The board is moving on a lot of school areas this year in spite of the election next year. But I think that they are thinking strategically. They must move on this because of the pressure from the province&#8217;s formula and because this is part of their Margret Thacher neo-liberal belief system.
So they decided to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saveschools.wordpress.com&blog=3678301&post=470&subd=saveschools&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Trustees sell land only at their peril</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:16:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have a look at this article on Heathercrest Park. Etobicok Board bought the land and decided not to build a school three decades ago and is used as a community park.
Now that it is in the greedy hands of the Toronto Lands Corporation, residents are miffed that it could be turned into townhouses.
Chair Campbell, one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saveschools.wordpress.com&blog=3678301&post=468&subd=saveschools&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>P4E report worth reading</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:47:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[People for Education has a new school closing report and it is worth reading.
It points out that the main reason that board&#8217;s are closing schools is based on the provincial school funding formula not good pedagogy.
It does miss the point in Toronto where the board expects to sell off 40-50 school sites after it closes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saveschools.wordpress.com&blog=3678301&post=466&subd=saveschools&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Protesting today a closed school  ten years ago</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Protest at the School Programs Committee of the board 5050 Yonge St. 5:30 PM by the  Queen&#8217;s Plate Drive  Parents and Community
Here is their message:
A Message to the Media
From 900, 910, 930 Queen&#8217;s Plate Drive  Parents and Community
Please speak to the Toronto District School Board for us
In May 1999, the Toronto District [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saveschools.wordpress.com&blog=3678301&post=461&subd=saveschools&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>School closing poster</title>
		<link>http://saveschools.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/459/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:56:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>My local ARC</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:16:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I do not intend to follow all the ARCs that the board is setting up but most of them will have the same motive, close as many school sites regardless of the quality of the school and its value to the community.
I am interested in what is happening in my barrio, Jane/Finch. Here they are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saveschools.wordpress.com&blog=3678301&post=451&subd=saveschools&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s a secret</title>
		<link>http://saveschools.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/its-a-secret/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The process of forming an ARC is not complicated but it does involve a lot of staff input. By the time the board votes on it, staff has formulated a plan stating which schools they want to close but that plan is not usually shown to the public.
Cynics might say that the ARC process is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saveschools.wordpress.com&blog=3678301&post=449&subd=saveschools&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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