{"id":568294251,"date":"2020-02-28T14:22:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T20:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/souwester\/2020\/02\/28\/candidates-address-issues-in-ward-3-byelection"},"modified":"2020-02-28T14:27:37","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T20:27:37","slug":"candidates-address-issues-in-ward-3-byelection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/souwester\/2020\/02\/28\/candidates-address-issues-in-ward-3-byelection","title":{"rendered":"Candidates address issues in Ward 3 byelection"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the byelection for Ward 3 of the Winnipeg School Division coming up later this month, the three candidates for trustee are working to motivate voters on issues facing education today. <\/div>\n
The WSD has a proposed budget of $420 million, and operates 78 schools with 33,000 students and 6,000 teachers. The upcoming provincial education review, to be released in March, has hinted at budget cuts, cuts to administrations and also amalgamation of school boards. <\/div>\n
Ward 3 schools include: Carpathia, Earl Grey, Gladstone, Grosvenor, Kelvin, LaVérendrye, Queenston, River Heights and Robert H. Smith.<\/div>\n
The byelection takes place on March 21, with advance polls on March 14, 16 and 17. <\/div>\n
See https:\/\/winnipeg.ca\/clerks\/election\/byelection2020\/default.stm for more information, including local polling stations and voter eligibility.<\/div>\n
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Ben Carr<\/div>\n
Maintaining a strong, local voice and local choice on the Winnipeg School Division is top of mind for candidate Ben Carr, along with promoting innovation and creativity in schools. <\/div>\n
Carr, 33, is the principal at the Maples Met School in the Seven Oaks School Division, and previously taught at Robert H. Smith and Kelvin High. Well-known in the community and a former head coach of the football team at Kelvin, Carr has been involved in politics since he was president of the student council at Kelvin. <\/div>\n
“Born and raised in River Heights, I’ve spent the majority of my adult life working in the schools in our community,” Carr said. “As the principal of an innovative school, I’m in a position to advocate for the type of change that could be a benefit to our families. I’ve gained insight into the challenges students and families face and the issues that are important.”<\/div>\n
He hopes to bring a conversation to the school board about how innovation can improve the experience of students and teachers. <\/div>\n
“The school system is rooted in the 1850s factories mode, which focused on turning out worker bees. The fact is that the economy has changed. Society has changed,” he said. “The way people learn hasn’t changed fundamentally, but we need people who understand and come from examples of schools rooted in creative ways to teach.”<\/div>\n
There are too many layers of bureaucracy in the Winnipeg School Division that have to be navigated before ideas that will bring about positive changes can be heard, he said.<\/div>\n
He’s also concerned about a provincial move toward standardization of tests, thanks to low scores on the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) tests in the province. <\/div>\n
“We need to better understand the problems kids are bringing to school that are preventing them from engaging in the first place. I am concerned about a potential move toward further standardized testing,” Carr said. “We cannot continue to measure intelligence through limited mediums.”<\/div>\n
Carr believes school trustees are valuable, especially their ability to give a voice to parents and students.<\/div>\n
“If you have an issue that needs to be addressed, you want to be able to call a local representative who knows your school, the cultural fabric of your community, and who can take the time to sit down and work through problems. You don’t want to be navigating a complex bureaucracy of department officials who don’t have an understanding of those local issues and angles.”<\/div>\n
Ben Carr online: <\/div>\n
www.bencarr.ca<\/div>\n
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Kathy Heppner<\/div>\n
Those who work in education are expecting big changes when the province releases its education review in March. <\/div>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":291603811,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_classifai_error":"","_classifai_text_to_speech_error":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,13],"tags":[],"education-subject":[],"media-literacy-topic":[],"post_topic":[],"content_type":[24],"class_list":["post-568294251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-souwester"],"acf":{"short_title":"","seo_title":"","deck":"Three seeking board position","story_tag":"","byline":"Susie Strachan","updates":null},"apple_news_notices":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/souwester\/2020\/02\/28\/candidates-address-issues-in-ward-3-byelection","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Candidates address issues in Ward 3 byelection","url":"http:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/souwester\/2020\/02\/28\/candidates-address-issues-in-ward-3-byelection","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/souwester\/2020\/02\/28\/candidates-address-issues-in-ward-3-byelection"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/04\/ss-Ward3-mar4.jpg?w=150&h=150&crop=1","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/04\/ss-Ward3-mar4.jpg"},"articleSection":"News","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"feedloaderapi"}],"creator":["feedloaderapi"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Our Communities","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2020-02-28T20:22:00Z","datePublished":"2020-02-28T20:22:00Z","dateModified":"2020-02-28T20:27:37Z"},"rendered":"