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Posted: May 14, 2021 3:11 PM AT | Last Updated: May 14
Education Minister Natalie Jameson says despite being a new to the portfolio, she is taking the issue of racism in P.E.I. schools very seriously. (Rick Gibbs/CBC)
Minister of Education and Lifelong Learning Natalie Jameson says Prince Edward Island needs to and will do more to address racism in Island schools.
The issue was raised in the legislature on Thursday,
Green and Opposition education critic MLA Karla Bernard asked the minister questions around how the department was working to diversify curriculum, support schools and how students and parents should report incidents of racism.
Posted: Mar 09, 2021 8:12 PM AT | Last Updated: March 10
P.E.I. s auditor general says 137 international students attended Island schools during the 2019-20 school year, paying $1.5 million in tuition to the province, but that the Department of Education does not have processes to effectively manage the program that brought them here.(John Robertson/CBC)
A program that allows international students from kindergarten to Grade 12 to attend public school on P.E.I. at a cost to their families of more than $10,000 in tuition payments per year lacked basic safeguards to ensure their safety while living in the province, according to a report from the province s auditor general.
Green MLA wants government to reinstate moratorium on student loan repayments
Green MLA Lynne Lund wants to know if government will reinstate a moratorium on student loan repayment in the province.
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Posted: Mar 04, 2021 7:00 AM AT | Last Updated: March 4
Green MLA Lynne Lund says she tabled the UPEI student union s petition signed by nearly 300 students and former students asking for the moratorium on student loan payments to be brought back.(CBC)