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Manitoba’s Progressive Conservative government is eliminating most of the province’s elected school boards and merging many school divisions.
A bill now before the legislature would replace all elected school boards, except for the French school division, with community school councils and a provincewide advisory board.
The province’s 37 English-language school divisions would be reduced to 15.