Schools, students, facilities, and education governance
35 commitments from 6 parties, grouped by who published them.
TEAM for a Livable Vancouver 18
- Work with the Province to locate K–12 schools within walking distance of students to reduce car trips.↗
- Work with the City to end school enrolment lotteries through long-range planning that places schools where and when students need them.↗
- Return to meaningful public input into a transparent budgeting process.↗
- Demand the Province protect four annexes, twenty-eight elementary schools, and eleven secondary schools that remain at high seismic risk.↗
- Coordinate with the Park Board to enhance school fields and green spaces for use by the broader community as well as host schools.↗
- Provide an integrated swimming and lifeguard training program so that all Vancouver children can learn to swim, in cooperation with qualified agencies, and work toward more community-based pools through cooperation between community centres and schools.↗↗
- Implement inclusion policies and measure their outcomes to ensure they are effective.↗
- Incorporate childcare into school sites with the long-range goal of implementing a preschool program for all three- and four-year-olds, in keeping with Ministry of Education plans.↗
- Include music programming at every elementary school by reinstating Elementary Band and Strings programs.↗
- Increase focus on alternative, applied skills, and dual credit programs to provide pathways for students across the academic spectrum.↗↗
- Prioritize keeping children from the same family together in the same school.↗
- Work with the District Parent Advisory Council on neighbourhood school planning.↗
- Pause the rollout of Microsoft Copilot for students 13 and older in secondary schools pending research showing benefits outweigh risks and meaningful consultation with students, families, and educators.↗
- Ensure City growth planning does not outpace school resources, and prioritize new schools in newly developed neighbourhoods such as Olympic Village.↗↗
- Stop disposing of school land and commit to retaining ownership of school buildings and property for future population growth, repurposing space in underutilized buildings for childcare, seniors care, or community programs.↗
- Take action by any means possible to reverse the proposed sale of Queen Elizabeth Annex, the leasing of Fleming's field, and the closure of Carleton.↗
- Negotiate with the Province to retain a greater share of school taxes collected in Vancouver for local schools rather than remitting them to provincial general revenue.↗
- Examine the need for expansion of senior management relative to direct classroom spending.↗
Christopher JK Richardson 7
- Ensure learners with special needs, ELL students, Indigenous students, adult students, and youth in care have access to proper supports, accommodations, and resources in inclusive neighbourhood classrooms.↗
- Ensure all school facilities are seismically fit and appropriately sized for current and future needs.↗
- Reinstate the School Liaison Officer preventative program alongside the VSB Safe and Caring School Department.↗
- Restore honours classes to schools.↗
- Introduce support programs — including financial literacy, charitable literacy, coding, and language classes — offered in neighbourhood clusters.↗
- Address staffing and skill shortages and retention issues among teachers, educational assistants, and early childhood educators.↗
- Partner with community groups to offer wrap-around services including before- and after-school opportunities within self-managed schools to support learners, families, and the community.↗
COPE 7
- Bring forward a motion to stop the elimination of the district-wide librarian mentor teaching position (1.0 FTE District Teacher Librarian) for the 2026–2027 school year.↗
- Bring forward a motion to increase additional hours for supervision aides for the 2026–2027 school year.↗
- Bring forward a motion to reinstate 3.0 FTE SSB staffing for the 2026–2027 school year.↗
- Bring forward a motion requiring Teachers Teaching on Call to cover resource teacher absences from day one rather than day two.↗
- Bring forward a motion to reinstate 1.0 FTE Teacher of the Visually Impaired and 1.0 FTE Hospital Homebound Teacher for the 2026–2027 school year.↗
- Bring forward a motion to fully designate the City of Vancouver food grant for school meals for the 2026–2027 school year, restoring over $160,000 that has not yet been confirmed in the Financial Plan.↗
- Bring forward a motion calling for consideration of reallocating administrative office budgets to support resource teachers and inclusive education.↗
Bright Future Vancouver 1
- Ensure City Hall removes permitting, approval, inspection, and land-use coordination delays that affect school projects rather than adding to them.↗
Green Party of Vancouver 1
- Call for reinvestment of school tax revenue into Vancouver schools.↗
Vote Vancouver 1
- Work to create more opportunities for school spaces to serve their communities outside school hours.↗