{"id":2943,"date":"2017-05-01T07:59:21","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T11:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=2943"},"modified":"2017-05-01T06:44:37","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T10:44:37","slug":"public-meeting-to-discuss-sir-james-dunn-amalgamation-with-michipicoten-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2017\/05\/01\/public-meeting-to-discuss-sir-james-dunn-amalgamation-with-michipicoten-high-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Meeting to Discuss Sir James Dunn amalgamation with Michipicoten High School"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"column\">\n<p><strong>May 1, 2017 @ 07:59<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Tonight will be the second and last public meeting to hear public concerns and questions about the possibility of school closure, and accommodating the JK-8 program and students currently housed at Sir James Dunn Public School as a Jk-12 School on the Michipicoten High School site.<\/p>\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>The major factor behind the consideration of this amalgamation is the condition of the SJD building. The original Sir James Dunn School was built in 1920\u00a0but completely destroyed by fire in late 1973. The current building was built in 1975, a two-storey building without a basement.\u00a0Over the next five years, Sir James Dunn would require $4,931,986 worth of renovations and upgrades. However, the entire building could be replaced for $11,441,300.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>The other major factor is the declining enrollment occurring in both schools.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight at 6:30 p.m. there will be a meeting in the Sir James Dunn Public School Library.\u00a0Light refreshments will be served and representatives from the School Board will be present.<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Sir James Dunn Public School ARC members\u00a0are:\u00a0Robin Maj (School Council Chair), Amanda Gauthier (Community Member),\u00a0Mayor Ron Rody\u00a0(Municipal Representative),\u00a0Petar\u00a0Kusic\u00a0(School Principal) Patty Bernath (School Staff Member), and Joe Maurice (Superintendent of Education).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"column\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 1, 2017 @ 07:59 Tonight will be the second and last public meeting to hear public concerns and questions about the possibility of school closure, and accommodating the JK-8 program and students currently housed at Sir James Dunn Public School as a Jk-12 School on the Michipicoten High School site. The major factor behind &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,40],"tags":[147],"class_list":["post-2943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-local","tag-sir-james-dunn-amalgamation"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-27 17:36:51","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2944,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943\/revisions\/2944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}