Events from February 21, 2025 – April 30, 2025 – Page 5 – Education and Child Care Events from February 21, 2025 – April 30, 2025 – Page 5 – Education and Child Care

School District Amended Annual Budget

In accordance with the Budget Transparency and Accountability Act (BTAA), school districts are required to provide the Ministry with electronic and print copies of their amended annual budget. Updated after the Fall recalculation of Operating Grants, this is a Board of Education’s legal budget for the current school year. Instructions 1. See the School District … Continued

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

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 … 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 … 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