More and more principals say they use the AIMS annual high school report card to determine where they succeed and where they need to concentrate their efforts. This story includes one principal who sees the value of the report, and one who isn't so sure.
AIMS' extensive research on the labour market and the impact of the demographic shift is used in this news story about the pending labour shortage.
For the seventh year in a row, Progress magazine featured the AIMS Annual Report Card on Atlantic Canadian High Schools. This year reporters took a look at education choice.
From municipal performance to fiscal policy to health care, this Beacon highlights AIMS most recent work regionally, nationally and internationally.
This editorial in the Cape Breton Post highlights the advantages of AIMS annual high school report card. It concludes, "But if nothing else, AIMS has helped erode the encrusted taboos surrounding the assessment of school performance and public access to such data."
AIMS released the first New Brunswick Municipal Performance Report and Hampton was pleased with its rating but confused as to why it did not do better in recreation.
Business New Brunswick reported creating 1700 jobs last year. Far short of their target of 3000 jobs, citing the economic downturn as the primary reason for missing the 3000 mark, the Minister responsible for Business New Brunswick labeled the results as a significant achievement in the current climate. Business New Brunswick also highlighted that they “maintained“ 4000 jobs, well above their target of 2500. AIMS Executive Vice President Charles Cirtwill, points out, however, that the problem is all of these numbers are pure make believe. In observing that many of these jobs would likely have been created or “maintained” in the absence of government largesse, Cirtwill says , “I'm skeptical of many of these kinds of numbers, no matter how well-meaning they are or how reliable the source is, because of course we will never know whether or not they would have happened without government investment."
The AIMS 7th Annual Atlantic High School Report Card has a lot people talking. This column in the Chronicle-Herald points out that one of the greatest advantages of the report is that it forces accountability upon our public school system.
The biggest cities in New Brunswick didn't do as well in the AIMS Municipal Performance Report as the smaller municipalities. AIMS Executive Vice-President Charles Cirtwill warns though everything in the report must be taken in context.
The towns of Stewiacke and East Hants were graded in the AIMS Nova Scotia Municipal Performance Report. Both municipalities earned decent grades for the services they provide residents.