Vancouver School Board: Time In Toronto

Immigrant Children Dept: "We very much want to hear ... what are you doing to be so successful?" said delegation leader Jaana Sandberg, development manager at Gothenburg's Centre for School Development. "Some of your top students are immigrants. That's not common in Sweden.", according to Vancouver Sun. The delegation spent a recent morning at the Vancouver school board's District Reception and Placement Centre, which is the first point of contact with the school system for immigrant families and canada is a world leader in integrating immigrant children into the school system and a delegation from Sweden was in Vancouver this week to study what this country's doing right. Sandberg said the delegation chose Canada as a destination because she had read a lot about this country's success in integrating immigrants who speak many languages and the relative abundance of government and community resources available to help. The group of 29, which includes education officials, social workers and local politicians from Sweden's second city of Gothenburg, spent time in Toronto before coming to Vancouver. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.