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Biography

Katherine Wagner writes twice a month about education issues in the column School Watch. She is a Maple Ridge parent who served several terms on the board of education for School District 42.

Opinion

Trustees too full of rhetoric

Some school trustees and their supporters would like to narrowly constrain public debate about B.C. education. Their rhetoric focuses almost exclusively on the money required to maintain a clunky bureaucratic system designed to meet the needs of a bygone age.