{"id":16701,"date":"2015-12-16T22:10:46","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T03:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/?p=16701"},"modified":"2015-12-16T22:16:08","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T03:16:08","slug":"lester-b-pearson-abandons-schools-divides-territory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/lester-b-pearson-abandons-schools-divides-territory\/","title":{"rendered":"Lester B. Pearson abandons schools, divides territory"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Riverview<\/a>
Riverview expanded\u00a0in 1962; to close in 2016. Photo of article courtesy of Rohinton Ghandi.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Decisions by the Lester B Pearson school board on Monday night mean that six buildings–Lakeside in Lachine, Riverside in Verdun, Martin Tabachnick in Dorval, Orchard in LaSalle, Thorndale in Pierrefonds and Sherwood Forest in Beaconsfield–will be empty on July 1, 2016, to be turned over to the Marguerite Bourgeoys schoolboard or sold.<\/p>\n

Chairperson Suanne Stein Day said her administrators advised the moves be made as a precursor to proposed provincial government budget cuts.<\/p>\n

Last spring, the ministry of education threatened to remove maintenance funding for any school with less than 50% occupancy,\u201d said Stein Day. \u201cThey took that clause out at the last minute, but we expect it to be brought back again in future. And to be fair, it\u2019s not something that I\u2019m against. We\u2019d much rather spend money on students rather than brick and mortar.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For the rest of the story, please refer to the Suburban online<\/a> article, which also appeared on page 1 of today’s West Island edition. Also refer to:\u00a0http:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/allion_clean-up\/<\/a>, which refers to the major environmental clean-up project done on Riverview’s land at public expense just last summer.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Lester B Pearson school board decided on Monday night that six buildings–Lakeside in Lachine, Riverside in Verdun, Martin Tabachnick in Dorval, Orchard in LaSalle, Thorndale in Pierrefonds and Sherwood Forest in Beaconsfield–will empty on July 1, 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"0","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21,23,22],"tags":[706,808,805,804,741,803,807,809,811,806,812,810,128],"class_list":["post-16701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-island-report","category-lasalleposts","category-verdunposts","tag-beaconsfield","tag-dorval","tag-lachine","tag-lakeside","tag-lasalle-2","tag-lester-b-pearson-school-board","tag-martin-tabachnick","tag-orchard","tag-pierrefonds","tag-riverside","tag-sherwood-forest","tag-thorndale","tag-verdun","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2buQs-4ln","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16069,"url":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/marguerite-bourgeoys-schoolboard\/","url_meta":{"origin":16701,"position":0},"title":"New Faces at Marguerite-Bourgeoys","author":"Tracey Arial","date":"November 4, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Despite many fewer school board commissioners at the French Marguerite Bourgeoys, there will be several new faces around the table. Diane Lamarche-Venne easily won the right to remain chair with 60% of the votes placed. She got 5,742 votes compared to 3,881for Max Martel. Martel did do well in Verdun\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Journalism"","block_context":{"text":"Journalism","link":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/category\/writing\/notable-nonfiction\/journalism\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Diane Lamarche-Venne","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/dlamarche-222x300.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":16927,"url":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/lakeside-riverview-stay-open\/","url_meta":{"origin":16701,"position":1},"title":"Community activism keeps Lakeside and Riverview schools open","author":"Tracey Arial","date":"January 28, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Lester B. Pearson has given parents and community leaders from Dorval, Lachine and Verdun eleven more months to save Riverview Elementary in Verdun and Lakeside Academy in Lachine. Read the story about parent reaction on page 2 of yesterday's City Edition of The Suburban.","rel":"","context":"In "Verdun"","block_context":{"text":"Verdun","link":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/category\/canada\/verdunposts\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Parents and local leaders crowded in the Brookdale boardroom Monday January 25","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/crowd.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":16061,"url":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/congratulations-school-commissioners\/","url_meta":{"origin":16701,"position":2},"title":"Congratulations School Commissioners","author":"Tracey Arial","date":"November 3, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 \u00a0 Congratulations to Diane Lamarche-Venne and Suanne Stein Day, the new school board presidents. Congratulations also to the new Verdun and LaSalle school commissioners. Lester B. Pearson Reps Mary Ann Davis, Verdun and the Bronx and Frank di Bello, rest of LaSalle. Marguerite Bourgeoys Reps Sarita Benchimol in the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Journalism"","block_context":{"text":"Journalism","link":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/category\/writing\/notable-nonfiction\/journalism\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20Marie-Ann-Davis.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2601,"url":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/lasalles-english-website\/","url_meta":{"origin":16701,"position":3},"title":"LaSalle\u2019s English Website Online Now","author":"Tracey Arial","date":"August 22, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The borough of LaSalle has launched a website that fully mirrors the official French borough site for English-speaking residents. We had to build it the same way we built the French site,\" said Pierre Dupuis, the borough\u2019s clerk and director of communications. \"We\u2019ve translated everything and now we\u2019re double- and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "LaSalle"","block_context":{"text":"LaSalle","link":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/category\/canada\/lasalleposts\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"LaSalle's English website","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Englishwebsite.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1295,"url":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/batshaw-under-five\/","url_meta":{"origin":16701,"position":4},"title":"Batshaw Changes How it Handles Children under Five in Lachine, LaSalle, and Verdun","author":"Tracey Arial","date":"December 3, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Batshaw and community workers in Lachine, LaSalle and Verdun held their first \u201cMy Family, My Community\u201d Steering Committee meeting last Friday, November 30. \u201cMy Family, My Community\u201d will radically change how Batshaw Youth and Family Services handles youth protection cases for children between one- and five-years old and their older\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "LaSalle"","block_context":{"text":"LaSalle","link":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/category\/canada\/lasalleposts\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1453,"url":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/demolition-review\/","url_meta":{"origin":16701,"position":5},"title":"Demolition Review: Who Does What?","author":"Tracey Arial","date":"January 27, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"As of 2002, Quebec bill 137 has required projects with planned demolitions to be reviewed formally before obtaining permits from municipal councils. Councils must also notify citizens that demolition of a building has been authorized at least ten days before it occurs. Five communities on the island of Montreal handle\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Island Report"","block_context":{"text":"Island Report","link":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/category\/canada\/island-report\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Heritage Building at Risk","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/granery.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16701"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16706,"href":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16701\/revisions\/16706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}