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c economist suntribune in our community saturday april 21 2001 police search area wfee body found from page 1 forensic sciences tatz would not confirm informa tion from private detective brian king who said police had found a jaw bone that would be used to confirm the identity of the mur dered woman through dental records king who has helped the gagnon family search for the well- liked woman after police scaled down their investigation said cloth ing found at the scene appeared to match clothes the murdered woman wore in her final hours lamondingagnon was wearing blue jean overalls a yellow tank top and brown birkenstock sandals fea turing handpainted flowers the night she disappeared but kings partner nino calabrese said the location of the remains casts doubt on the theory they are those of lamondin- gagnon they were awfully close to the avenue he noted for them not to have been seen earlier dozens of officers and volun teers scoured areas near the stouffyille house for months after the 20yearold lamondingagnon was murdered may 29 however a family friend said 19th avenue is one of the few roads that volunteers and police didnt search york region is so large we did nt get to all of them jackie did the best anyone could do said margaret carrington of aurora officers with yorks forensic archeological recovery team removed the skeletal remains late friday police are continuing to look for evidence this weekend during a ground search north of 19th avenue in markham halfway between mccowan road and hwy 48 it is likely the area will remain closed until monday morning police say thats where a markhamarea man discovered the remains around 4 pm thursday as he walked his dog investigators from york regional police homicide and missing persons bureau are treat ing this as a suspicious death and are appealing to the public for assistance in this investigation anypersons with any information are asked to call york regional police homicide and missing persons bureau at 905 7731221 ext 7865 or crime stoppers at 1- 800222tips antieaster message staff photorob alary father leslie tamas with message vandals sprayed on st mark catholic church in stouffville on the easter weekend vandals also shot holes in windows at the towns new poollibrary complex broke into a liquor store and damaged several cars york regional police has stepped uppatrols in the area principals think tank at odds over school rankings by kathleen griffin staff writer many principals at markhams publiclyfunded high schools believe the narrow academic focus of a recent studyranking secondary educa tion in ontario fails to givepar- entsand students a holistic view of the school its programs and its overall success but the vancouverbased frasef institute report author peter cowley defends the statis tics arguing academics are the bottom line at any school and parents should know which schools are doing the job well because of the way the data hasbeen put together parents cansee whats going on in terms of academics at their childrens schools cowley said we set it upjsolthese comparisons would not only be possible but easily dorie 0 v however local educators argue strongly that a students success is based on many sepa rate elements and as a general tool for parents the study falls short many factors determine the effectiveness of schools said unionville high school principal gayle brbcklebankvincent her school was ranked 36th of 566 were proud of our school we have quality staff and stu dents who want to be successful but i dont believe its a good idea to rank schools each have differ ent factors the students them selves the area in which they live the focus of the school itself the fraser institute a public policy watchdog some refer as a rightwing think tank released ontario high school rankings wednesday- of the top 20 schools all but three were pri vate v the criteria were strictly aca demic and based these narrow indicators the percentage of advanced level courses taken by students the percentage of courses passed in grades 11 12 and oac the number of core subjects math english science taken by students in their last but i dont believe its a good idea to rank schools each have different factors the students themselves the area in which they live the focus of the school itself gayle brocklebankvincent unionville high school principal two years of high school and how close the marks aire between boys and girls taking advanced english and hiath valiof us haveto understand what that data means said jim orfanakos principal of milliken mills high school which was ranked 98th it doesnt tell us about the variety of programs available or the satisfaction of- parents or students and he points out private schools have the option of select ing their students based on their grades a luxury publiclyfunded systems do not have we must look at the diversity of needs he said we deal with every student we modify pro grams to fit their needs cowley disagrees even though schools may have a different emphasis or focus you would hope they also reflect the things any school would do he said id be wor ried if a school or district was saying students entering the trades after high school dont need to take alevel courses so someone not going to university should not take advanced courses i find that a bit scary meanwhile the york catholic district school board is still try ing to determine why only two of its 10 high schools were ranked st robert at 109th and father bressani at 464th cowley explained if informa tion was missing from any of the indicators schools would not be ranked because results wouldnt be consistent but board spokesperson chris cable said its perplexing two schools had all the data neces sary while the others did not we are in the process of look ing into it she said adding while the study results cant hurt we would hate parents to pick a school based solely on these rankings wed strongly encourage par ents to look further at a schools 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