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PUPIL ACCOMMODATION
February 1999
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COMMITMENT TO INDIGENOUS RIGHTS, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND EQUITY
The Board recognizes its responsibility to ensure that this policy and associated procedures promote
and protect Indigenous rights, human rights, and equity. The Board will strive to address and
eliminate discrimination and structural and systemic barriers for students, staff, and the community.
1.0 RATIONALE
To provide a framework to address the accommodation needs of students within each school
in the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board.
2.0 DEFINITIONS
Please refer to Appendix A for a full list of definitions used in this policy.
3.0 GUIDING PRINCIPLES
3.1 The Board recognizes that its primary mandate with regard to real property is to provide
space for educational programs and services for the student population it serves based
on the needs of communities and the demand for programs.
4.0 SPECIFIC DIRECTIVES
4.1 The Board shall endeavour to ensure that its facilities, including portable or temporary
structures, are used to maximum effectiveness for day school purposes.
4.2 The Board shall ensure that consistent and equitable accommodation guidelines are
adopted and applied in order to:
a) meet the educational needs of the student population of a school; and
b) ensure that the space within a school is being used efficiently.
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4.3 These guidelines,as outlined in Procedure PR.567.PLG,shall comply with the
recommendations made by the Pupil Accommodation Review Committee and
supported by the Ministry of Education.
4.4 The accommodation needs of a school shall be determined by the Principal,
Superintendent of Education and the Associate Director of Business Operations.
4.5 The Director of Education is authorized to issue procedures as may be necessary to
support this policy.
5.0 APPENDICES
Appendix A:Policy Definitions
6.0 REFERENCE DOCUMENTS
Guide to Pupil Accommodation Reviews,2016
Ministry of Education Memorandum entitled Recommendations Regarding the Calculation of
School Capacity,29 September 1998
OCDSB Procedure PR.567.PLG:Pupil Accommodation
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APPENDIX A:POLICY DEFINITIONS
In this policy,
Board means Board of Trustees.
District means the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board.
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