Poverty reduction will help educate youth
VANCOUVER/CKNW(AM980)
Dan Burritt
5/18/2010

Vancouver School Board Trustees say it's time the Province launched a BC-wide poverty-reduction strategy.

The Board approved a motion calling for just that Monday evening, "We know that there are homeless people that look to our school grounds for shelter."

COPE Trustee Jane Bouey says Trustees see the impact of poverty firsthand, "We know that there are students who are homeless themselves or youth that have had to drop out of school and are homeless on the streets."

She says they hope other Boards sign on, too, "I think that the School Board, because we have a direct relationship with families and children in the city. I think that gives a certain degree of credibility to the call."….

The NDP has pressed the Campbell Government to launch a poverty reduction plan in the past.