Liberal leader Stephen McNeil is pleased Nova Scotia's public school teachers have accepted a new three-year agreement, but says there is more the NDP government could do to make education a true priority.
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Liberal education critic Karen Casey is calling on the Minister of Education to provide answers when questioned on the province’s budget for education.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says the NDP government's last minute political decision to shelve the school review process in an election year is an insincere attempt to clean up the mess this government created through its deep cuts to public education.
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Liberal labour and advanced education critic Zach Churchill says the Dexter government’s decision to cut $100 million from post-secondary education in Nova Scotia will mean post-secondary institutions will face harsher budget constraints.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says the latest Statistics Canada figures show that per student funding in Nova Scotia is still the second lowest in the country, despite a small increase.
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Liberal education critic Karen Casey says with 1,343 students waiting for school psychologists, the NDP's $65 million cut to education is clearly making it harder to ensure students get the support they need.
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Liberal MLA for Yarmouth Zach Churchill says problems with the new school in Yarmouth are making staff and students sick and he believes construction delays didn’t allow enough time for proper ventilation.
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Liberal education critic Karen Casey will introduce a bill in the legislature today that brings in more measures to combat cyberbullying in Nova Scotia.
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Liberal advanced education critic Zach Churchill says the NDP government’s continued attack on post-secondary education guarantees students and parents in Nova Scotia will be faced with higher tuitions, increased fees and a diminished quality of education.
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Liberal education critic Karen Casey says the Dexter government’s failures to combat bullying in schools could have tragic consequences and calls on the government to adopt Liberal proposals to strengthen anti-bullying efforts.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says the NDP government’s cuts to post-secondary education combined with rising administration costs make Nova Scotia’s post-secondary education system the least affordable in Canada.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says while Nova Scotia students will be returning to classes this week with fewer resources than last year because of $65 million in cuts the NDP government made to the public education system, the minister and her department's administration will have 30 per cent more support.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says the Dexter government’s $65 million cut to public education is causing class sizes to grow and literacy levels to decline.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says while power prices are putting a strain on home budgets, school board power bills show electricity rates are also draining resources from our children’s classrooms.
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Liberal MLA for Dartmouth East Andrew Younger says the Dexter government’s education cuts are putting an end to a popular school choice at Crichton Park School in Dartmouth.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says the Dexter government’s education cuts have caused the Cape Breton Victoria Regional School Board to shut down Sydney’s International Baccalaureate Program.
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Liberal education critic Karen Casey says the Dexter government’s anti-bullying awareness campaign is a delay tactic.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says the Dexter government’s education cuts have cost Halifax schools and students more than 150 teachers.
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Liberal advanced education critic Zach Churchill says that news of recent Dalhousie tuition and fee hikes show the Dexter government is not concerned about the affordability of a university education.
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In a speech to more than 500 supporters at his party’s annual general meeting, Liberal leader Stephen McNeil called on the Dexter government to restore the more than $65 million it cut from public education.
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Today in the legislature, Liberal leader Stephen McNeil tabled a petition brought forward by the Nova Scotia Teachers’ Union and signed by 20,000 Nova Scotians asking the Dexter government to reverse and prevent any further cuts to public education.
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Liberal MLA Andrew Younger says the NDP used its majority this morning at the legislature’s Public Accounts Committee to prevent discussion about Special Needs Education funding and the Department of Education’s program goals in this area which had originally been scheduled for June 13, 2012 at the request of the Liberal Caucus.
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Liberal advanced education critic Zach Churchill will introduce a bill in the legislature today that seeks to review all fees universities are charging their students.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says the staff and resource cuts in the Chignecto-Central Regional School Board are the first of many cuts across the province.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says the NDP’s current defence of more than $60 million in education cuts contradicts past statements they made about the importance of funding public education.
MoreLiberal education critic Karen Casey says the Dexter government’s decision to attack education funding is closing school libraries in the Chignecto-Central Regional School Board.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says the Dexter government’s latest budget increases the amount spent on education administration and senior management, but puts fewer resources into the classroom.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says that according to the Nova Scotia Teachers’ Union website, Premier Darrell Dexter is not participating in Take Your MLA to School Day today.
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Liberal education critic Karen Casey says that according to the Nova Scotia Teachers’ Union website, Minister Ramona Jennex is not participating in Take Your MLA to School Day today.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says that according to the Nova Scotia Teachers’ Union website, 11 NDP MLAs are not participating in Take Your MLA to School Day this Friday, including the premier and the minister of education.
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Liberal advanced education critic Zach Churchill says that it is disappointing that the Dexter government voted down a Liberal motion to allow Alliance of Nova Scotia Student Associations and the Canadian Federation of Students to present to the human resources committee.
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Liberal education critic Karen Casey says that the Dexter government’s decision to cut $13.4 million plus cost and wage increases from education funding will hurt students and will not help our education system adequately address students’ needs.
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Liberal education critic Karen Casey says the Dexter government’s decision to adopt Alberta’s math curriculum ignores the per student funding gap between the two provinces.
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Liberal education critic Karen Casey says the decisions of the Dexter government are putting autistic students in Nova Scotia’s education system at a disadvantage.
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Liberal education critic Karen Casey says that the education minister is mistaken if she thinks there are any school boards that keep primary to grade two students in class for only four hours per day.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says that the Dexter government must reverse its wrong-headed cuts to post-secondary funding.
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Liberal education critic Karen Casey says that the Dexter government delivered a second round of misleading information about education cuts this week in the legislature.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says that the equivalent of 210 full-time teachers were removed from classrooms across Nova Scotia because of the Dexter government’s assault on the education system.
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Liberal Education critic Karen Casey says on this, International Literacy Day, Minister of Education Ramona Jennex should take a long hard look at the damage the NDP government has done to early literacy in Nova Scotia.
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Liberal leader Stephen McNeil is criticizing the Minister of Education for attempting to blame the province’s school boards for her government’s decision to eliminate the Reading Recovery program.
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Liberal MLA for Bedford-Birch Cove Kelly Regan wants the Department of Education to explain why it’s signing off on the design of a replacement school for Charles P. Allen High that will have the school overcapacity when the doors open in 2013.
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Nova Scotia's opposition leaders united in distaste for education minister
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"Liberal critic Karen Casey said the province's new regulations are toothless appendages to existing legislation."
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Liberal education critic Karen Casey said by her calculations, students are not improving as much under the Succeeding in Reading program as they did under its predecessor.
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"You have the minister saying nothing's wrong. If that's the case, then why are they still testing the air quality?" Churchill said.
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Opposition critics said students and their families will bear the brunt of the cuts.
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MLA for Bedford-Birch Cove Kelly Regan discusses back to school with the NDP education cuts.
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Nova Scotia Liberal Leader Stephen McNeil's comments featured in The Chronicle Herald
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"What Nova Scotia parents and teachers are most outraged about is the lack of funding to support students in the classroom. The complexities within the classroom are greater today than ever before."
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Yarmouth MLA Zach Churchill was among the members of the Nova Scotia legislature who accepted an invitation from the Nova Scotia Teachers Union to spend some time in school through the NSTU's Take Your MLA to School Day.
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MLA for Colchester North Karen Casey in the Truro Daily News
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An op-ed on education by Zach Churchill, MLA for Yarmouth
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MLA for Colchester North Karen Casey discusses the cuts to education in the Truro Daily News
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A piece in response to an op-ed column by Minister of Education Ramona Jennex, which appeared in the April 9 edition of the Truro Daily News, as well as a paid advertisement from Truro-Bible Hill MLA Lenore Zann, which appeared in the April 7 edition of the Truro Daily News.
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Parents joined Liberal Leader Stephen McNeil's call to keep the program during a press conference at Province House.
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As the debate continues around education budgets, we must not forget what it is we value in public education.
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Instead of arbitrarily cutting school board funds, the province should be designing an education system around the outcomes it wants its students to achieve, Nova Scotia's Liberal leader says.
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Parents in Shelburne, Yarmouth, and Digby counties have already seen which school services might be cut to meet the Dexter government's order to trim costs.
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