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2010
"Boards Seeking Political Input" London Free Press Feb 23, 2010

2009
"Outdated formula in need of updating" London Free Press Nov 11, 2009
"County throws support behind school moratorium" Goderich Signal Star Oct 21, 2009
"Community partnerships with schools needs funding" Oct 20 Sudbury Star
"Groups readies email flood" London Free Press October 6, 2009
"Group fights closures - Community Schools Alliance on agenda of special school board meeting tonight" Orillia Times & Packet Sept 16, 2009
"Alliance calls for halt to school closings" The community Press Sept 11, 2009
"Board offers to talk about possible school closings" Strathroy Age Dispatch Sept 9, 2009
"Rural schools lifeblood of community: Dombrowsky" Bellville Intelligencer Sept 4, 2009
"Politician take school closure fight to province" York Region Sept 2, 2009
"No special status for rural schools" Guelph Mercury Sept 2, 2009
"School Alliance Will Meet With Board" MyFM Radio August 27, 2009
"Want say in closings" The Daily Observer August 27, 2009
"TVDSB promises dialogue" St Thomas Times Journal August 26, 2009
"Minister won't bend on school closures" St Catherines Standard August 24, 2009
"Small-town mayors seek moratorium on school closure" Guelph Mercury August 23, 2009
"Alliance meets with education minister to discuss moratorium on disputed closures" Niagara Advance August 20, 2009
"Time for Trustees to Act" Owen Sound Sun Times August 20, 2009
"School Alliance Lobbies Minister" London Free Press August 20, 2009
"School closings Fight" AM980 Radio August 18, 2009
"CSA gets meeting with Minister of Education Lord Mayor and members of CSA will sit down with Minister at AMO conference in Ottawa" Niagara Town Crier August 14, 2009
"Alliance seeks support for smart moratorium" Stayner Sun August 13, 2009
"Rural schools group gets to make case to minister" August 13, 2009
"County starts school alliance" Innisfil Scope August 12, 2009
"Locally Formed School Group to Meet with Wynne" MyFM August 11, 2009
"Rural-school advocates get chance to lobby Education Minister" LFP August 11, 2009
"Creative thinking on school closings" Toronto Star August 10, 2009
"Ontario municipalities asked to support moratorium that could save NDSS" Niagara Advance July 2009
"Alliance steps up battle to save rural schools" London Free Press July 8, 2009
"Board holds off decision on school closings" The Enterprise Bulletin - Simcoe June 20, 2009
"County vows to fight trend to close schools" London Free Press May 10, 2009
"Development strategy to fight closing of rural schools" Parkhill Gazette May 20, 2009
"County to wade into fight for schools" Strathroy Age Dispatch May 21, 2009

2008
"Parents defend rural schools" London Free Press September 10, 2008
"Timing of school-closing meeting 'bad judgment' " London Free Press October 14, 2008
"Thames Valley trustees close three rural schools" London Free Press October 15, 2008
"Trio of London schools next on hit list" London Free Press October 16, 2008
"Parents pull pupils in protest" London Free Press October 22, 2008
"Boycott battles school closing" London Free Press October 23, 2008
"Frustration boils over closings" London Free Press October 30, 2008

Documents & Articles


Letter from Doug Reycraft to Kathleen Wynne, Minister of Education for Ontario July 7, 2009
Memorandum from Nancy Naylor, Ontario Ministry of Education to Directors of Education June 2009 regarding Pupil Accommodation Review Guideline revised June 2009
Ontario Ministry of Education Pupil Accommodation Review Guideline revised June 2009
"Small Schools, Assets not Liabilities" Press Release National Association for Small Schools U.K.
"Small Schools - Perfect Antidote to Toxic Childhood " Mervyn Benford National Association for Small Schools U.K.
"Paper to F40 group" Mervyn Benford National Association for Small Schools U.K. August 2008
"The Right NOT to be bussed" Research by Terence Lee 1957 summarized by Mervyn Benford National Association for Small Schools U.K.
"In Education" - Mervyn Benford May 2006
"Downsizing – The Small School Movement" - Iain Hall "The Friday Missive" April 27, 2007 published by Future Leaders U.K.
"The Good Behaviour Experience" National Association for Small Schools U.K. July 2008
"Mergers Doomed to Fail" National Association for Small Schools U.K. December 2008
"NASS Believes Smallness of Scale has Worth" National Association for Small Schools U. K. Charter
"Small Schools Work" Press Release Rural Academy of Cumbria U.K. 06.02.2009

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