Please Note
Legislation and policy change regularly and, therefore, the legislative and policy references in the Guide may not be current. None of the information provided in the document is provided as legal advice and it shall not be relied upon as such. The Guide is a non-legal summary published for informational and educational purposes only.
Acknowledgements
Many people have contributed to this work since its inception and we would like to thank them.
Alan Nicholls wrote the first edition of the Guide to School Legislation (the “Guide”) in 1995, following seven editions of the Guide to the School Act of BC. Judith Clark continued to update the Guide to School Legislation until 2010.
Thank you to the Ministry of Education providing financial support for this project. We are grateful to Keith Mitchell of Harris & Company for the work that he did to update the Guide so that we could release the 2020 edition of the Guide. We appreciate Melanie Jackson’s role in editing the Guide. We are also grateful for the help of the many individuals in various associations and government departments who have answered our questions and sent information to assist us with the Guide including the Ministry of Education and the BC Public School Employers’ Association.
Thanks also to the BCSTA team members that worked on this edition of the Guide including the Legal Services and Communications Departments.
