Webpage Highlights School Board Consolidation Progress
The Newfoundland and Labrador school board consolidation process is
underway, with a transition committee formed, a CEO/Director of
Education-designate named, and a new webpage established to provide updates
on the committee’s work and highlights of regular meetings.
“There is much work to do this summer to ensure we have a smooth transition
for school opening in September,” said the Honourable Clyde Jackman,
Minister of Education. “This webpage is designed to provide information of
interest to the public, in a timely manner, through regular updates from the
committee meetings being held over the course of the next few months.”
The webpage can be viewed at:
www.ed.gov.nl.ca/edu/k12/boardtransition/
The Provincial Government announced in March that there will be one
English-language school board in Newfoundland and Labrador as of September
1, 2013. The four current English-language boards will see corporate
services amalgamated into one office, located in St. John’s. Strong regional
presence will continue at offices in Gander, Corner Brook, and Happy
Valley-Goose Bay, with senior executive and managers focused primarily on
educational programming and student achievement. Itinerant teacher supports
for students will also be located in these regional offices, as they have
been in the past. Meanwhile, many staff now located in satellite offices
under the current board structure (Labrador City, Lower Cove, Stephenville,
Grand Falls-Windsor, Burin, Clarenville, and Spaniard’s Bay), will be
accommodated in existing school buildings.
A transition committee has been established to oversee the consolidation of
the boards, chaired by former educator, school administrator and Deputy
Minister of Education Lorne Wheeler. Members of the transition committee
also include the elected chairs and one additional elected trustee from each
of the four current English-language school boards. The role of the
committee is to work with the existing boards to ensure that the transition
to one board is as smooth as possible.
Darrin Pike, a long-time educator and administrator, who has served most
recently as Deputy Minister of Advanced Education and Skills, and who is a
former Deputy Minister of Education, has been named the CEO/Director of
Education-designate of the new provincial school district. Mr. Pike will
begin working with the transition committee in the coming weeks before
officially assuming his new duties in September.
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Media contact:
Heather May Director of Communications Department of Education 709-729-0048, 697-5061 heathermay@gov.nl.ca |
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