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Ecole des duex rives needs a new gym, the Supreme Court ruled in 2020. It will get one soon. 📷 Joti Grewal

Progress in Mission as Chilliwack & Abbotsford wait for court-ordered schools

A Mission francophone school will get a new school, but province still faces $2 billion bill for schools elsewhere

A ruling by the Supreme Court of Canada requires upgrades to existing schools in Chilliwack and Mission, and a new school in Abbotsford. 📷 Google Street View/;Wangkun Jia/Shutterstock

Adding and improving French schools could cost BC more than $1 billion

Canada’s Supreme Court ordered BC to build a new school in Abbotsford and replace or significantly upgrade another school in Chilliwack as part of necessary province-wide upgrades.

The BC government has been repeatedly warned that the province's schools are ‘deteriorating’ with age and a lack of funding. 📷 David J. Mitchell/Shutterstock

Funding insufficient to save BC’s ‘deteriorating’ schools, province warned repeatedly

An annual assessment found that current levels of funding are insufficient to keep up with mounting school repair bills in newly unredacted documents released to The Current

The kids aren’t alright

The pandemic is making life harder for Fraser Valley teens, adding to the ‘stress pileup’ teens throughout history have faced.

At Kwantlen Polytechnic University's brewing school, students like Ernesto Cadral learn the chemistry behind beer.

Chemistry, enzymes, and suds: Inside Langley’s school of beer

Inside one of North America’s best brewing schools, students learn there’s more to beer than barley, yeast, hops, and water.

A silhouette of Barry Neufeld on a background of news stories about him

What’s next for the Chilliwack School Board?

After six months of working to fix the problems in Chilliwack’s school board that started with trustee Barry Neufeld, one question remains: was it enough?

Langley’s Shortreed Elementary under construction

The community elementary school is undergoing seismic upgrades which won’t be complete until 2023.

Abbotsford school district posted a large surplus last year after cutting dozens of jobs

After layoffs, Abbotsford school district posts huge surplus

Fraser Valley school districts posted some of their largest surpluses in 2020-21. But they took different routes to get there.

BC’s increasing school repair bill

Across BC, school districts are facing mounting repair bills. The Current has obtained condition data for every school district in the province. In many, the cost to repair the schools is close to half the cost of tearing them down and building new facilities.

When an overdue fine is not just an overdue fine

The Fraser Valley Regional Library is considering removing late fees for all. The debate goes beyond pennies into the philosophy of libraries.