The Gallant government revealing its 10 year educations plan which will shift the focus to government setting goals while giving local schools and school districts the tools to reach those goals in a way that works with their own challenges and opporotunities.
Education Minister Brian Kenny says these long-term plans focus on priority areas where we need to see results such as improving literacy and numeracy skills and early childhood development.
Kenny says over the summer they have been working with schools districts on developing the objects of the plan and as recommended by the co-chairs they will keep working with the districts, schools and early childhood stakeholders to determine how they can achieve these objectives together.
Between last summer and this spring, the Education plan co-chairs Karen Power and Gino Leblanc worked with experts, teachers, students, parents, business leaders and more through a series of open houses, workshops, meetings and online engagement.
Over 3,400 New Brunswickers participated in this process.
To check out the plan yourself, click here
The plan already has some critics with former Liberal Education Minister Kelly Lamrock tweeting that it’s not a plan but the soundtrack of a government that is giving up.
Basically, this isn’t an education plan. It’s the soundtrack of a government giving up. #nbpoli
— Kelly Lamrock, Q.C. (@KLamrock) September 1, 2016
