Bring back elected school boards, says new bill Read more at: https://www.thecoast.ca/news-opinion/bring-back-elected-school-boards-says-new-bill-33526694

NDP leader Claudia Chender said, “school boards, like the Nova Scotia Health Authority Board, which this government also dissolved, were independent layers of democratic accountability.” Chender said that current criticisms about education right now—such as violence in schools, the Code of Conduct review, provincial spending on new school builds to address overcrowding—“these are all things that were within the purview of school boards.”

Chender said the NDP’s position on school boards is the same as it was when they were dissolved in 2018. They need to be reformed, yes, but today’s bill “doesn't prescribe how many boards there are or what form they take—but what it says is the public, families and students deserve a level of accountability from this government that they are not getting.” Chender said the “dangerous outcomes of that lack of accountability” now show up in the Houston government “politicizing where new schools get built, applauding themselves for adding modulars—which until very recently would have been a source of shame for any government that all they can do is put in temporary classrooms in parking lots and take away recreation spaces—and in the auditor general's report on school violence, which was damning and which this government refused to acknowledge was even an issue until the report was published.”

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