New Brunswick Education

• Concerns raised about teacher shortage in N.B. just days before start of school year

  As children get ready to return to the classroom, all four anglophone school districts in New Brunswick are still hiring teachers, causing concern at the NBTA.

  Education

  Aug 31, 2023
  
• Two N.B. school districts adopt their own LGBTQ2 student policies amid Policy 713 controversy

  'We felt that students were being made unsafe by the changes made to Policy 713,' Anglophone East District Education Council member Kristin Cavoukian said Wednesday.

  Canada

  Jun 21, 2023
  
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• Community hubs not included in funding for new Saint John, N.B. schools

  As part of the community hub model, the city would have additional early childhood learning spaces, parent resources and an expanded after-school program.

  Canada

  Apr 4, 2023
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• New Brunswick to increase course selection for high school students

  Students in Grades 9 and 10 in New Brunswick schools will now be able to select more courses throughout the year as the province looks to increase engagement

  Education

  Mar 27, 2023
• Parent group welcomes N.B. premier statement that French immersion reform uncertain

  A New Brunswick parent group is welcoming a statement by the premier that the government's proposed reform to the French immersion program in schools isn't a sure thing.

  Canada

  Feb 2, 2023
• Quebec speaks out about New Brunswick’s ‘very worrying’ French immersion reforms

  New Brunswick's current immersion program offers up to 90 per cent of class time in French, while the new program will devote half the day to learning in French.

  Education

  Jan 27, 2023
• New Brunswick releases controversial French second-language plan for English schools

  Under the new plan, kindergarten and Grade 1 students in N.B. will spend 50 per cent of the school day "engaged in exploratory learning in French" to foster literacy skills

  Canada

  Dec 15, 2022
• Lack of supply teachers threatens closure of classrooms in New Brunswick

  The District scolaire francophone Sud wrote in a letter to parents that classrooms could close if a supply teacher is not found in time.

  Canada

  Dec 2, 2022
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• N.B. education minister says province isn’t exploring private bilingual school buses

  New Brunswick's education minister is denying reports that the province is exploring a single bilingual school bus system.

  Politics

  Nov 18, 2022
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• Mental health services for students unavailable due to understaffing: N.B. Teachers Association

  The NBTA wants the provincial government to invest part of their budgetary surplus into education immediately in order to address the understaffing and the enrolment increases.

  Education

  Oct 18, 2022