Events from February 28, 2025 – May 17, 2025 – Page 4 – Education and Child Care Events from February 28, 2025 – May 17, 2025 – Page 4 – Education and Child Care

Testing Lead Content in Drinking Water

School districts must test for lead content in drinking water in their school facilities ​to ensure quality meets established guidelines under applicable provincial and federal legislation. Results must be reported annually to the Ministry of Education using the Excel document linked below. Ministry of Health has changed the limit to 0.005mg/L (was 0.01mg/L) School districts … Continued

April Graduation Assessment Registrations – Opening Date

The registration window for schools to register students for the Grade 10 and Grade 12 Graduation Assessments for the upcoming assessment session opens March 3, 2025. See the 2024/25 Graduation Assessment Schedule.   Instructions Further details will be posted closer to the target date. Questions? Contact student.certification@gov.bc.ca.

February Intake of Youth TRAIN in Trades Program Course Claims

Public schools are required to complete a spreadsheet that collects the number of net new Youth TRAIN in Trades program courses students have enrolled in since September to ensure the appropriate allocation of funding. Instructions Read the February Net New Youth Train in Trades Instructions. Complete the February Net New Youth Train in Trades Instructions sample spreadsheet for … Continued

April Graduation Assessment Registrations – Closing Date

The registration window for schools to register students for the Grade 10 and Grade 12 Graduation Assessments for the upcoming assessment session closes today. See the 2024/25 Graduation Assessment Schedule.   Instructions Further details will be posted closer to the target date. Questions? Contact student.certification@gov.bc.ca.

School Calendars

In accordance with ​Section 87.01 of the School Act​​, ​a board must prepare and submit to the ministry a school calendar for each school in its district for each school calendar year. Boards must make their proposed calendars public by February 28, 2025 and submit their calendars to the ministry by March 31, 2025. ​​ Instructions … Continued

School District Quarterly GRE Financial Report – April

In accordance with the Budget Transparency and Accountability Act, school districts are to complete a quarterly financial report within two weeks after the conclusion of each quarter (September, December, March, June). A GRE reporting template will be emailed to each district in advance of the reporting due date. Instructions 1. See the Government Reporting Entity … Continued

Event-Driven Reporting

In April 2020, school districts were informed that the Province of B.C. had initiated a process for government organizations to record and report on financial transactions that are incremental to regular operations due to a specific major event. The intent of the process is to facilitate consistent financial reporting by the Ministry of Finance across … Continued

June Graduation Assessment Registrations – Opening Date

The registration window for schools to register students for the Grade 10 and Grade 12 Graduation Assessments for the upcoming assessment session opens April 28, 2025. See the 2024/25 Graduation Assessment Schedule.   Instructions Further details will be posted closer to the target date. Questions? Contact student.certification@gov.bc.ca.

Employment Data and Analysis System (EDAS) – April

The Employment Data and Analysis System (EDAS) collects employment data from the public school system. EDAS serves the needs of: School districts, by providing workforce management information to support local operations and accurate data to support collective bargaining. The BC Public School Employers’ Association (BCPSEA), by supporting the BCPSEA Sustainable Workforce Initiative, human resource best … Continued

Student Achievement Data Exchange (SADE) – April

The Student Achievement Data Exchange (SADE) collects course level data for every student for all Distributed Learning schools, Summer schools and all public schools offering Grades 8 through 12 (including Continuing Education and Alternate Education Centres), as required by the School and Student Data Collection Order (M152/89). The information collected through SADE provides schools, districts … Continued

Student Data Collection (1701) – May

This collection only involves Public Continuing Education Schools and Ministry-approved Online Learning schools and Independent Online Learning schools. Form 1701 collects the following information about individual students as of May … Continued

Annual Facility Grant (AFG) Expenditure Plan

To comply with Treasury Board direction, each school district must annually provide the ministry with an Annual Facility Grant (AFG) project and spending plan prior to the allocation of AFG funding. Specifically, each school district’s plan will include a list of AFG projects and expenditures expected to be undertaken during the fiscal year (April 1 … Continued