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Registration of 4 to 9 year old children.
SMNN - The Department of Education hereby informs all parents that the second phase of the implementation of compulsory education continues from March 8 through March 12, 2010 with the registration of children between the ages of 4 and 9. This registration is important in order to get an accurate picture of the number of children whose status is not regulated (the undocumented) that need to be placed within the school system for the upcoming school year.
Rebuilding Lives: Education is crucial to the rehabilitation of offenders.
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Educating young inmates through training in the trade areas of barber, computer repair and tailoring, is a very positive development and a step in the right direction in rehabilitating these persons and making their way back into society as productive citizens. Last week Foundation Judiciary Institutes Windward Islands signed a financial agreement with Dutch-funding agency AMFO for over Naf.155,000 to develop the intervention rehabilitation program based on the aforementioned trade areas. [More....]
SHTA applauds Commissioner Marlin for obtaining funding for SBO.
SMNN - Philipsburg: ----The SHTA is commending leader of Government, Commissioner William Marlin for obtaining necessary funding to realize the development of a new Secondary Vocational School (SBO) on St. Maarten.
Apart from awarding scholarships for colleges and universities abroad, the SHTA has been encouraging Government to use available EU or Dutch funding to develop a Vocational Poly-technical/ Hospitality Training Institute on St. Maarten that could provide the local population with the training, skills and certification necessary to successfully enter the job market. This, the SHTA believes would not only protect the local workforce, but would reduce the need for businesses to seek foreign labor.
More Monies Needed to Build New Secondary School.
SMNN - Philipsburg:--- Commissioner of Education William Marlin and USONA Director Reginald Doran signed off on two contracts on Wednesday. One of contracts is for the new secondary school, which is to be built in Cay Hill. USONA is providing 5.6 million guilders for the construction of the school while the island government of St. Maarten has to provide the other 5 million guilders to fulfill the entire construction cost. On display were some drawings, which depict the SBO School, which is to be built later. Marlin said 4 million guilders are for the construction of the school while 1.6 is for the preparation of the teachers that would be teaching at that school when it is completed.
Government meets with school bus owners and drivers, short and long term solutions discussed
PHILIPSBURG - A general meeting with school bus owners and drivers was held at the John Larmoni Center on Thursday afternoon. Also attending the meeting were the principals and representatives of schools on the island.[More....]
William recommits to educating every child
CAY HILL--“Children should not suffer because of decisions their parents make,” Leader of Government and Education Commissioner William Marlin said in reaffirming government’s commitment to continue with the introduction of compulsory education. “Government has decided that we will tackle the problem once and for all,” Marlin told participants in a compulsory education summit held at the Belair Community Centre on Wednesday.[More....]
Sundial student stabs another boy
The Daily Herald - PHILIPSBURG--A Sundial School student stabbed another boy at the school Monday, hospitalising the victim.
The details are unclear, but The Daily Herald understands that one student took a blade and stabbed another in the elbow, in the chest and in the back. This newspaper was told the wound to the back was the worst. Police did not have an official report up to press time Monday.
Starlight closed, no info forthcoming
The Daily Herald - ST. PETERS--Teachers and students at Starlight Education Centre were captured standing on the porch of the school around 10:00am on Monday, with the entrance to the school tightly padlocked.
Reports reaching this newspaper indicated that the school had been closed since last week Wednesday and that students at one point had been accommodated at a sports complex in Philipsburg.
One More Minor Arrested in School Bus Shooting ---Eight Students Released.
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Philipsburg:--- Police have arrested another minor student who it is believed fired shots on Friday from a school bus. Prosecutor Rienk Mud said another arrest was made but said he did not have details of the ongoing investigation. [More....]
Students of Starlight Education Locked Out --- No Rent paid for 2009-2010.
SMNN - St. Peters: --- Students of the Starlight Education Foundation are again in limbo since they are once again out of school. SMN News learnt from a few parents that they were called to the school on Monday morning to get their children because there is huge lock on the school doors and gate. "I have not been able to attend school because our school door is locked and our teachers were in a workshop for two days and now when we go to school on Monday we are locked out", said one student.
