Premier Scott Moe as well as the province’s education minister announced the possibility of increased funding for school divisions after defending their absence from an education rally over the weekend.
“Your voices are being heard, not just Saturday but the lead up to that as well,” Moe told reporters, referring to the rally, following the question period on Monday.
Education minister Dustin Duncan said the government will be providing more funding for higher than predicted enrollment in some Saskatchewan schools.
“As the premier indicated, this year, we know that the enrollment issues that school divisions are facing from last year…
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Premier Moe says more education dollars likely after the Saskatchewan teachers rally
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Jeremy SimesPublished May 01, 2023 • 2 minute readSaskatchewan Premier Scott Moe spoke to the media after the Saskatchewan budget was presented in Regina, on Wednesday, March 22, 2023. Heywood Yu photo /The Canadian PressArticle content
REGINA — Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says it’s likely the province will provide millions of additional dollars to squeezed classrooms after thousands rally to protest underfunding.Advertisements 2This advertisement has not been loaded yet, but your article continues below.THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR…
How a new history group aims to defend Canadians like John A Macdonald
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Canada‘A number of us were concerned about what we saw happening to history being perverted or new words coming in; different facts, alternative facts, false information’Published April 20, 2023 • Last updated 1 week ago • 5 minute readThe decapitated head of a statue of Sir Canada’s first prime minister John A. Macdonald lies on the ground following a protest in Montreal in August 2020. Photo by Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press/FileArticle content
In the reckoning over Canada’s history, those who would see the preservation of statues and place names have…
Innovation, education, social connections are key as Dairy XPO returns with record crowds
The founder/owner of the 2023 Canadian Dairy XPO knew a record was broken before official numbers were even released.
That’s what owner Jordon Underhill told Stratford Today on the second day of the XPO.
“It’s always good when you have exhibitors come to the office and tell you that it was a record day before you even know what the numbers are,” he said.
The annual event takes over the Stratford Rotary Complex on Wednesday and Thursday, with exhibits, vendors, and educational resources available across the different halls of the Rotary Complex. The crowds are expected to exceed the previous…
The English school district accepts the findings in the deaf education discrimination case
Carter Churchill’s family won a human rights case against the Newfoundland and Labrador English School District in March. (Submitted by Kimberly Churchill )The Newfoundland and Labrador English School District says it accepts the findings of a human rights tribunal report that it ordered to provide Carter Churchill — a profoundly deaf child from Portugal Cove-St. Phillip’s — with education and evaluation in American Sign Language and pay his family nearly $150,000 for discrimination.
Carter’s parents, Todd and Kimberly Churchill, won the human rights case against the district in early March after a year-long fight to get their son the…
Sask. budget’s funding for universities gets mixed reviews
The funding for universities in Saskatchewan’s budget for 2023-24 has received mixed reactions.
The faculty association at the University of Regina says it is not enough to stave off staff cuts, while the University of Saskatchewan’s provost says it is a positive step.
The latest budget included $764.8 million for the post-secondary education sector in the upcoming fiscal year — a $24.5 million or 3.3 per cent increase from last year. The provincial government and Saskatchewan’s universities are entering the third year of a four-year funding agreement aimed at providing stability for post-secondary schools.
Saskatchewan post-secondary institutions are set to…
Afghanistan school year starts without millions of teenage girls | Education News
Afghanistan’s schools have reopened for the new academic year, but hundreds of thousands of teenage girls remain barred from attending classes as Taliban authorities ban their attendance at secondary schools.
Education Minister Habibullah Agha confirmed in a statement that schools up to grade six “will currently be open for girls”, effectively retaining a ban on high school for female students.
Madrassas, or Islamic schools, are the only education centers open for girls of all ages. Yalda, a ninth grader in Kabul, told Al Jazeera that the madrassa was good for enhancing her knowledge of religion.
But “the madrassa cannot help…
