Nova Scotia unprepared for school advisory council changes: NDP
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“‘What we discovered, looking at that FOIPOP was, as we had suspected, the announcement of funding directly to SACs that was made shortly after the dissolution of the school boards, and sort of promoted as an alternative method — a superior method — of local decision making, was in fact a stunt,’ Chender said in a telephone interview on Wednesday.
‘When they made that announcement, they hadn’t done a jurisdictional scan, they hadn’t done any research, they didn’t even know how SACs were budgeted and operationalized at that time, and then, as if to add insult to injury, we also discovered that the decision or the request to explore funding directly to SACs came not from the minister for education but from the premier’s office.
‘So, there’s a question of who’s on first, who’s running this show, anyway? Obviously the premier is running the province but we would certainly hope that the minister of education was running the department.’”
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