Mother of all aggregation posts

Here's what's been coming across the desk in the last month.
Capital

• The Thorold News on the high school closure review in St. Catharines and points southwest, a review also touched on in this St. Catharines Standard coverage regarding the Town's letter to the province, a columnist's take on the issue;
• The Kenora Daily Miner and News covers an early school-closure review meeting;
• Owen Sound Sun Times on the closure of four tech centres for full-day kindergarten;
• St. Catharines Standard on an elementary public school-closure meeting;
• The Barrie Examiner on whether the Simcoe County DSB retrofits/renovates or rebuilds an old, inaccessible school building and the Orillia Packet and Times on the decision to ask for funds to rebuild and seeking partnerships for the build;
• The Tillsonburg News covers the first meeting of an elementary school-closure review committee -- before and after;
• The Sudbury Star unveils the new Sudbury Secodnary School;
• The Fort Erie Times on the DSB Niagara's consideration of a school-closure report for the town;
• The Hamilton Spectator on a Hamilton-Wentworth DSB decision to close a school;
• The Simcoe Reformer on the Norfolk County mayor weighing in on the high school closure review, the release of an internet survey, and on how religion might save PDCS;
• The Goderich Signal-Star on a new-rural-school option considered (again) by a school-closure committee;
• The Peterborough Examiner on doctors' calls for PCVS to stay open (joined recently by mental-health professionals), a silent protest that stopped a Kawartha Pine Ridge DSB meeting,
• The Sault Star on a new Catholic high school's name;
• The Barrie Examiner on a citywide Catholic school-closure review; and,
• The Lake of the Woods Enterprise on speeding up a school-closure review;

Governance / Curriculum

• The Mid-North Monitor on a sharing agreement with the Town of Espanola and all local boards;
• The Owen Sound Sun Times on the Bluewater DSB's commitment to outdoor ed and an expansion of abilities for its student trustees and new concerns over declining enrolment with an eye on the Catholic board;
• The Peterborough Examiner on there being no Ojibway-language classes in local schools;
• The Pembroke Observer explains what Parent Involvement Committees are;
• The Observer again, as the Renfrew County DSB boasts of its strategic planning;
• Wifi coverage galore-- from the Peterborough Examiner on the board of health's opinion and trustee's response/discussion, St. Catherines with an early piece on the Ontario English Catholic Teachers' Assocation anti-wifi moves complete with response from the local Catholic board, CBC Ottawa on parents' concerns in schools there and the Petrolia Topic on its Catholic board not backing down on wifi;
• The Ottawa Citizen on the rejection of a failed candidate's call for religious policy review;
• The Citizen again with a fantastic three-part data journalism on out-of-area high school attendance-- part one, part two, part three;
• The Gananoque Reporter gets an Upper Canada DSB trustee's perspective on newsletters;
• Globe and Mail editorial on bullying being confronted yet acknowledged;
• The Barrie Examiner on a school-safety related teacher walkout;
• The Citizen again on the Ottawa Catholic board's charges in a school explosion; and,
• The Belleville Intelligencer on a complaint a two-year disciplinary process for a teacher takes too long.

Happy reading. No Drummond here-- still saving that more a separate, in-depth post.

Early February tab dump

One week generated a lot of education coverage in the ol' inbox.
Capital

• The Sudbury Star letter on the public being shut out / stage-managed at a school-review meeting;
• The Northern News on a school-closure tied to an enrolment threshold, with busing implications, with the board meeting coverage later in the week;
• The Sault Star on a new French-language school's solar roof;
• The Barrie Examiner on a new Catholic elementary school review kicking off in the north end of that city;
• The Strathroy Age-Dispatch on post-closure boundary adjustments (or lack thereof);
• The Sudbury Star on the Near North DSB's decision to freeze all school reviews (!!);
• The Sudbury Star on the latest 'green' school construction;
• The St. Catharines Standard on a community resigned to closure of its Catholic elementary school;
• The Niagara Falls Review on the vote to close a Catholic elementary school; and,
• The Standard again with coverage of the St. Catharines - Thorold high school review meeting, and a post-meeting proposal to shift lines on a map.

Enrolment / demographics

• The Owen Sound Sun Times on a parent's concern too many public-school-supporter families' children are attending Catholic school;
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• The London Free Press on ad campaigns from coterminous boards in the region targeting different age groups; and,
• The Toronto Star's moneyville on people making correlations between test scores and housing prices.

Governance / curricula

• The Chatham This Week localizes the bus consortium RFP impact;
• The Toronto Star's coverage of a teacher taking his former Catholic principal before the Ontario College of Teachers over the GSA issue;
• The St. Catharines Standard on teachers and technology;
• The North Bay Nugget on vending-machine revenue drops;
• The Star's QP columnist (among others), takes on Dalton vs. the Catholic school system over the GSA issue;
• The Brockville Recorder and Times with a editorial in support (which is rare, of late) of school-bus consortiums;
• The Pembroke Observer's coverage of the Catholic board's strategic-plan review;
• The Hamilton Spectator on a Hamilton-Wentworth DSB trustee's move to have a full external review of how the board does its thing; and,
• The mayor in the Northern News piece mentioned above bristles at the critique from the board he enrols his own kids elsewhere.

The Moneyville piece had me thinking-- that's really not what the data was meant to support, but in a way it does reflect the continuing reality of what the data shows. Those who are better off in life do better in school. Those who are not don't do as well. But what preceded what? A noggin' scratcher of a chicken-and-egg that one is.
The Free Press piece also had me laughing, as this is the district I used to cover. The public board knows it loses kids to the Catholic system in Grade 9, whose schools are bigger, more modern, etc. etc. The Catholic board is being slammed by declining enrolment in elementary and trying to keep its smaller number of full-day kindergarten sites as attractive compared to the larger selection of public sites.
More on ARC stuff and the continuing GSA saga (and yes, that's what it's becoming) in other posts.