Media Updates on BC Education Funding

Members of PAN (Parent Advocacy Network for Public Education) and FACE (Families Against Cuts to Education) hosted an event on Tuesday, January 26 to deliver more than 1,500 postcards and online petition signatures to ​Premier Christy Clark’s Vancouver Office to demand better funding for schools.

VANCOUVER SUN 
PAN's Letter to BC Education Minister, Mike Bernier, sent on Jan 20 was picked up and quoted heavily in the Vancouver Sun on Jan 21.  

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/province+using+strong+tactics+parents/11665390/story.html

CKNW News Talk AM980

Dickens PAC Chair, Andrew Sinclair, was interviewed by Simi Sara on Friday, Jan 22.

https://soundcloud.com/cknw/parents-speak-out-about-seismic-upgrades-to-bc-schools-the-simi-sara-show-fri-jan-22

The PAN and FACE event on Tuesday (Jan 26) and corresponding media coverage appears to have helped, as Mr. Bernier stated the next day (Jan 27) that the "95% was flexible".

Here is some of the media coverage on January, 26: 

CTV (Vancouver) - News at 6pm

http://bc.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=791309&binId=1.1184759&playlistPageNum=1
(Watch Video from: 9:30 to 11:15)

Global NEWS (BC region)

http://globalnews.ca/video/2479723/most-of-b-c-dealing-with-spike-in-public-school-enrolment/

Additional article on Global News:

http://globalnews.ca/news/2479326/bc-public-school-enrolment-up

CBC Radio 1 – On the Coast

http://www.cbc.ca/player/AudioMobile/On%2BThe%2BCoast/ID/2682659979/

(Listen to Audio from: 20:00 to 22:15). 
Dickens PAC Chair, Andrew Sinclair, was interviewed on CBC local news.

NEWS 1130

http://www.news1130.com/2016/01/26/parents-group-public-school-funding/