{"id":15737,"date":"2019-05-25T15:26:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T19:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/?p=15737"},"modified":"2019-07-22T21:02:52","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T01:02:52","slug":"in-the-news-living-wage-policy-eyed-by-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/in-the-news-living-wage-policy-eyed-by-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Living wage policy eyed by board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>May 25, 2019 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newwestrecord.ca\/news\/living-wage-policy-eyed-by-new-west-school-board-1.23832953\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New West Record<\/a>):<\/em> New Westminster School Board may be following in the City\u2019s footsteps by enacting a living wage policy. \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\">On May 14, the Board of Education\u2019s operations policy and planning committee recommended the board direct staff to research and compile a report on what a living wage policy would look like for the district.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">The recommendation motion passed unanimously.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt just seemed a good time to do it,\u201d Mark Gifford, chair of the board and a member of the committee, said. \u201cWe see the impact of poverty on children and families in our district and the relationship it has to learning outcomes.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">&#8220;If we really want to walk our talk of equity and inclusion, and knowing the impact of inequality in our schools, we really have to do what we can to show leadership and walk that talk of paying people an amount that does not keep them in poverty,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newwestrecord.ca\/news\/living-wage-policy-eyed-by-new-west-school-board-1.23832953\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New West Record<\/a> for more&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 25, 2019 (New West Record): New Westminster School Board may be following in the City\u2019s footsteps by enacting a living wage policy. \u00a0On May 14, the Board of Education\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":395,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-board-news-bulletins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15737"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16390,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15737\/revisions\/16390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}