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The APA invites you to attend a very important meeting on Thursday, December 15 at 7pm<\/strong> regarding the future of Allenby as a K-6 dual stream school.<\/p>\n In the new year, we expect the TDSB to announce a formal consultation\/ review process to address the overcrowding in a number of schools in the Ward 8 area, including Allenby.<\/p>\n We anticipate this to be an 18 month consultation\/ review process with the resulting changes being implemented for September 2014<\/strong> (the year full day kindergarten is coming to Allenby).<\/p>\n The APA has been advised that TDSB staff are currently conducting internal discussions before the formal announcement of the consultation\/review process. There are no specific recommendations currently on the table. Similarly, as of today, no option is off the table. There is a strong possibility that the outcome of the consultation\/ review process may mean changes to Allenby in the future including, for example, the programs offered at Allenby and\/or changes to Allenby’s student boundaries and\/or daycare.<\/p>\n While we will not have answers or solutions at our meeting, we will be able to provide some more information than is contained in this note.<\/p>\n The primary purpose of this meeting is to seek an expression of interest from all those who wish to be involved. There will be a significant and lengthy time commitment attached to this involvement. However, there will be different ways to engage in this important process.<\/p>\n We cannot emphasis enough that Allenby will need very strong leadership at the consultation table – from parents of both the French and English streams. We know there are parents who are well suited to this role. To those who are: please come out!<\/p>\n We look forward to seeing you at 7pm on Dec 15 in the Library.<\/p>\n Child-care will be provided. If needed, please advise Lori at lori.miller@rogers.com<\/p>\n Rochelle Fox and Lisa Spiegel<\/p>\n Co-Chairs, Community Awareness, APA Executive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The APA invites you to attend a very important meeting on Thursday, December 15 at 7pm regarding the future of Allenby as a K-6 dual stream school. In the new year, we expect the TDSB to announce a formal consultation\/ review process to address the overcrowding in a number of schools in the Ward 8 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apa-meetings","category-school-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1311"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1341,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions\/1341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}