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ministry of education
The Ministry of Education and Child Care (British Columbia) is the provincial government body responsible for overseeing K–12 education in British Columbia. The ministry develops provincial education policies, sets curriculum standards, allocates funding to school districts, and establishes regulations governing how schools operate. While school districts manage daily operations, they do so within the legislative and policy framework established by the ministry.
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Solving problems at school: accommodation and IEP failures
When a school fails to accommodate a disabled child, it rarely announces the failure plainly. The accommodation does not arrive; the IEP goal sits unimplemented through term after term; the education assistant’s hours are quietly reduced without consultation; the psychoeducational assessment…
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Solving problems at school: exclusion and removal
Exclusion takes many forms in BC schools, and most of them have been given names designed to obscure what they are. A “gradual entry plan” is a partial schedule. A “room clear” is the isolation of a disabled child in an…