New Brunswick’s education minister is staying silent for now about his next move in an increasingly acrimonious dispute with one of the province’s school districts.
This year's budget has over half a million dollars intended to create a recruitment strategy, but opposition critics say a strategy should already be in place.
New Brunswick's new school policy on gender identity has not applied uniformly across the province.In fact, the majority of school districts still have their own policies, despite letters of warning from the minister. Education Minister Bill Hogan's mandate for parental consent before staff can use certain children's pronouns got pushback from school psychologists, child advocates and district education councils.Months later, the battle continues. Hogan recently threatened to remove Anglophone E