End enrolment lotteries and stop selling school land

SCHOOLS AND STUDENT SUPPORT

TEAM for a Livable Vancouver on schools

TEAM is running one School Board candidate, the smallest school slate of the parties contesting that race, but it publishes a detailed schools platform.

Its argument is that schools are not being planned where students actually live, and that the board should stop selling land it will need when those neighbourhoods fill up.

TEAM publishes a specific and checkable claim about swimming: that 50% of Vancouver children cannot swim, and that it would provide training so all of them can. We have not checked that figure.

It also names buildings: reversing the proposed sale of the Queen Elizabeth Annex, the leasing of Fleming’s field, and the closure of Carleton.

9 PUBLISHED COMMITMENTS

What they say they will do

• End school enrolment lotteries

  Long-range planning with the city would put schools where students need them, when they need them.

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• Stop disposing of school land

  TEAM commits to retaining ownership of school buildings and property, and using space in underused buildings for child care, seniors care or community programs.

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• Reverse the Queen Elizabeth Annex sale, Fleming’s field lease and Carleton closure

  TEAM would take action by any means possible to reverse all three.

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• Pause the Microsoft Copilot rollout in secondary schools

  The rollout of Microsoft Copilot 13+ would pause until research shows the benefits outweigh the risks and students, families and educators have been consulted.

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• Bring back elementary band and strings

  Music programming would be included at every elementary school, restoring the Elementary Band and Strings programs.

  Cost

  Not published

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• Swimming training so every child can swim

  TEAM states 50% of Vancouver children cannot swim and commits to an integrated swimming and lifeguard training program so 100% can.

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• Keep more Vancouver school tax in Vancouver

  TEAM would negotiate with the province to keep more of the school tax collected in Vancouver for local schools.

  Who has the power

  The school tax formula is provincial.

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• Protect schools at seismic risk

  TEAM would demand the province protect the four annexes, twenty-eight elementary schools and eleven secondary schools it says remain at high risk in an earthquake.

  Who has the power

  Seismic upgrade funding is provincial.

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• Child care on school sites

  Child care would be built into school sites, with a long-range view toward an early education preschool program for all 3 and 4 year olds.

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