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Many from the community are getting our message out the media.

special Board meeting

7 PM Monday, February 14, 2017

Board Room, Administrative Building, 133 Greenbank Road

Debate continues on the Woodroffe Family of Schools

ATTEND the continuation of yesterday's debate on the closure of JH Putman.

special Board meeting

6 PM Monday, February 13, 2017

Board Room, Administrative Building, 133 Greenbank Road

Gallery: Parents make final push to save their schoolsAbout 70 people attended a meeting of the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board to listen to parents’ final pleas to save their schools.

Public school trustees recommend closing five west-side schoolsPublic school trustees have recommended closing five schools in the west end of the city. D. Aubrey Moodie and Greenbank middle schools, Century and Leslie Park English elementary schools and Grant…

'French parents against English parents': Emotional school closure debate gets heatedSome parents are outraged at a last-minute idea injected into the emotional school closure debate that one of the targeted schools remain open, but only for French immersion students. Trustee Anita…

Public school trustees recommend closing five west-side schoolsPublic school trustees have recommended closing five schools in the west end of the city.D. Aubrey Moodie and Greenbank middle schools, Century and Leslie Park English elementary schools and Grant Alternative were picked off one by one at the meeting of the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board.Staff have recommended closing seven schools.

Miller and Kopytko: It's folly to consider closing J.H. Putman school and here's whyMany thanks to Citizen reporter Jacquie Miller for her Jan. 14 article finally showing clearly what the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board is either too duplicitous or too cowardly to say t…

Community Meeting

7 PM Wednesday, February 01, 2017

Meeting Room, Carlingwood Library, 281 Woodroofe Avenue

Feb 1 Putman meeting flyer.pdf

Board Meeting

January 24, 2017

Parents at Ottawa schools slated for possible closure continue to oppose planParents of students at a handful of western Ottawa schools slated for closure made arguments against the plan at Tuesday night's Ottawa-Carleton District School Board meeting, just days before the board announces its choices.

Trustees respond as parents plea for neighbourhood schools, English-language instructionOttawa public school trustees have agreed to revise a report that some parents feared would lead to the loss of neighbourhood schools that offer both English and French immersion programs. Parents …

Putnam Rally

October 18, 2016

Rally to Save Putman.pdf

Students and parents rally to save Putman middle schoolDozens of students and parents formed a human chain on Sunday in front of J.H. Putman Public School to show their support for the middle school, which is slated for closure.

Students and parents rally to save Putman middle schoolDozens of students and parents formed a human chain on Sunday in front of J.H. Putman Public School to show their support for the middle school, which is slated for closure.

J.H. Putman Public School supporters rally to save schoolMiddle school one of several in public board facing closure

Review Meeting

January 10, 2017

October 18, 2016

J.H. Putman Public School students, parents plead to keep it openParents and students from J.H. Putman Public School in Ottawa's west end are hoping to convince school board officials to keep it open, saying it has flourishing arts programming that can't be replicated at other schools.

Meeting turns emotional as parents plead for west Ottawa schoolsParents packed the first of two public hearings Thursday night on the closure of as many as seven schools in west Ottawa.

J.H. Putman parents and students fight to save their school as board considers cutsParents and students at J.H. Putman fight to keep their school open as the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board moves to close schools in the west end of Ottawa, and eliminate all middle schools.

Families fight to save school from closingHari Adnani says his first year at J.H. Putman middle school was “awesome.” He made lots of friends and was elected president of the student council, even though he was only in Grade 6.“It was kind of a risky move on my part to run, but it worked out all right,” he says cheerfully.

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