MR. SPEAKER: The honourable Deputy Government House Leader.
MR. CHUCK PORTER: Mr. Speaker, I move that you do now leave the Chair and that the House resolve itself into a Committee of the Whole House on Supply unto Her Majesty.
MR. SPEAKER: The honourable member for Halifax Citadel.
MR. LEONARD PREYRA: Also soon to be known as Halifax [...]
By LEONARD PREYRA
The Labour Day weekend is a watershed event for families with school age children, students, staff, and neighbourhoods hosting schools and universities. As a university professor and parent of one student entering grade twelve and another starting her second year of university, I will once again experience this Fall ritual both at home [...]
MR. LEONARD PREYRA: Mr. Speaker, it gives me great pleasure to rise today and speak to this bill. I would like to echo what my colleague on the other side of the House has just said and the member for Timberlea-Prospect and, as well, the Critic for Education in the Liberal Party.
I think the minister [...]
LINDSAY JONES
EDUCATION – School boards won’t be allowed to consolidate schools unless they go through a formal review process, the education minister is recommending.
Karen Casey announced yesterday she wants to amend the Education Act to include all seven of a school review committee’s recommendations.
Other changes include extending the review process from four months to one [...]
By MARILLA STEPHENSON
“THERE IS GOOD to be found in Education Minister Karen Casey’s plans to change the process under which schools are reviewed for potential closure.But there’s no denying that the drawn-out timelines provide a timely political duck for the Tory minority government.
It is an old political strategy to call for a study or review [...]
Buildings can’t be mothballed until at least 2008 as province revamps review process
By AMY SMITH Provincial Reporter
School closures in Nova Scotia are on the backburner until 2008, perhaps even 2009, the education minister said Thursday.
Karen Casey said that if a school board wants to put a school under review for possible closure, it will have [...]
Welcome changes in school closings
Other than Sunday shopping, few issues in Nova Scotia trigger as much emotion as the closing of a school. Tempers flare, public meetings are packed and when a beloved institution of learning is forced to close its doors, it can be like losing a member of the family.
Probably the most traumatic [...]