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Eliana Koubi, 8, of Port Coquitlam was one of dozens of people fishing out garbage from the grassy shores of Port Moody last Saturday during the annual Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup. Koubi and a group of friends and family walked along the trails and boardwalk between Noons Creek Hatchery and Rocky Point Park, picking up cans, bottles, cigarette butts and chunks of yellow foam. So far in 2019, volunteers across Canada have organized 1,880 shoreline cleanups, collecting 95,637 kg of trash across 3,231 km of shoreline, according to the group’s website. For more photos from the PoMo Shoreline Cleanup, go to tricitynews.com. Stefan Labbé/the tRI-CItY neWS
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Class size & comp., by the numbers SD43 numbers are better than averages across the province Diane StranDberg dstrandberg@tricitynews.com
Bargaining for B.C. public school teachers may be taking place behind closed doors but a quick glance at local class size and composition numbers show what’s at stake. In recent weeks, the BC Teachers’ Federation has
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School District 43 has been keeping class sizes well below the collective agreement minimums, with classroom averages decreasing since 2017/’18. These smaller classes are likely to have the support
been raising concerns about possible concessions on class size and composition, an issue echoed this week by Coquitlam Teachers’ Association (CTA) president Ken Christensen. But if numbers tell the tale,
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of educational assistants as the number of classes with this extra support has grown dramatically, with 850 classes having an EA in the last school year compared to 635 in 2015/’16. SD43 is organizing classes
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differently, too, with more classes having fewer numbers of students with individual education plans (IEPs) to help them achieve education goals than in previous years. see
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