Last month, the Campbell administration cancelled annual grants worth approximately $110 million to improve and repair the province's schools. But at least one provincial Liberal backbencher had previously hoped the government would actually increase that funding. In 2008, Jane Thornthwaite was among four North Vancouver school board members who encouraged the BC School Trustees Association to lobby then education minister Shirley Bond for such an increase. This, according to the board's meeting...
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