- $150 million in new funding to ensure school districts provide library services, textbooks, arts and music programs, and services to students with special needs.
- Eliminate junk food in all schools within the next four years and extend the Action Schools program to every school in B.C. in grades K to 9.
- Complete all seismic upgrades to schools within the next 15 years through new $1.5 billion plan.
- Extend the Roots of Empathy program, which teaches children compassion and understanding, and has proven effective in helping reduce aggressive behaviour, to every school.
- Explore new ways to use under-utilized schools for the benefit of their entire community - as not just centres of learning but also centres of community activity and child development.
- Increase funding for colleges and universities by $196 million over next three years.
- Continue adding 25,000 post-secondary student spaces by 2010 in addition to the 6,000 spaces added since 2001.
- Limit future tuition increases to the rate of inflation through legislation, effective this September.
- New steps to improve student financial assistance.
- Found the new Thompson Rivers University based in Kamloops.
- Create a World Trade University in Chilliwack to offer graduate-level programs in trade-related fields and host international trade conferences and events, including potential World Trade Forum events.
- Establish a One World Scholarship Fund to help B.C. students earn their degrees and diplomas in other non-G8 countries, helping B.C. create new relationships around the world.
Speed up credentialing in trades and the professions for newcomers to Canada.
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