Our mission is to ensure equitable access to education for students with disabilities and complex learners in British Columbia.
Tag: Inclusive Education
Approaches to education that support belonging, participation, and meaningful learning alongside peers.
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Raise your hand for inclusive education: 10 questions to ask BC school trustee candidates
Post last updated October 29, 2026
Inclusive education takes more than good intentions. It takes funding, reliable support, and accountability when children are excluded. These ten questions ask BC school trustee candidates what they will do, how they will know support reaches students, and how families can track their commitments. Ask every candidate. Let’s make inclusive education the centre of this…
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When September starts before the supports do
Post last updated October 29, 2026
The first week of school arrives with photographs. Children in tidy clothes stand beside front doors holding hand-lettered signs. New backpacks are packed, lunches are made, children see old friends, and families wait for teacher assignments. Families of disabled children participate in many of these same rituals. Yet we may pack lunches while wondering whether…
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Who gets left off the bus?
Post last updated October 29, 2026
Across British Columbia, disabled children and complex learners are being left out through budget decisions. A bus route fills up. A counsellor’s door closes. A music room goes quiet. A specialist position stays vacant. A school day gets shorter. Each decision appears local, temporary, or administrative. For children and families, the result is much clearer:…
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Happy Mother’s Day from BCEdAccess
Post last updated October 29, 2026
This Mother’s Day, we honour every mother, grandmother, auntie, and caregiver carrying what the school system would not.
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Say here, if I call your name
Post last updated October 29, 2026
Families have heard the deflections for years. We’ve catalogued them and answered each one. None explain disabled students losing access to school.
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Dear School District Leadership
Post last updated October 29, 2026
This was posted by a parent in our Facebook group, and speaks to what so many other parents and children are struggling with in the education system. This letter needs to be read out loud in front of those decision makers who shape education. This is so spot on. Many thanks to the parent who…
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The budget that cries wolf: SD61’s deficit cycle
Post last updated October 29, 2026
Every spring in British Columbia, school districts present budgets that force communities to choose between necessary programming such as: music or speech therapy, career education or school counselling, enrichment for all students or baseline access for disabled ones. No one should have to make these choices. It is like asking people to choose between clean…
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March back in after spring break
Post last updated March 29, 2026
For families of children with disabilities and complex needs, spring break is rarely a break. It is two weeks in which the school layer is stripped away and you are left with what is actually happening: your child’s needs, your capacity, and the gap between the two that school was supposedly bridging. The equinox passed…
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The Mother of all Battles
Post last updated October 29, 2026
This is a blog about topics that people write large books about. Patriarchy, motherhood, disability, economy, and oppression. All of these topics intersect when we talk about employment —specifically, when it’s mostly women giving up their jobs to fill a gap in government support. All of their stories show a pattern of a single story.…
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