Manitoba officials to reveal details on education system reform plan
CBC
Manitobans will soon learn how the provincial government intends to change the public education system, after abandoning its unpopular Bill 64.
Education Minister Wayne Ewasko will hold a news conference at 2:30 p.m. CT, along with Seven Oaks School Division superintendent Brian O'Leary and Arthur E. Wright Community School principal Harpreet Singh, at Templeton School in Winnipeg.
CBC News will live stream the news conference here, as well as on Facebook and CBC Gem.
On Tuesday, Ewasko promised "good news" in the announcement, which will set out the provincial government's response to the 75 recommendations of the Commission on K-12 Education, launched in 2019.
The province delayed releasing the commission's report due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but eventually published it in 2021, along with its reform legislation, Bill 64.
That bill would have made sweeping changes to the province's education system, many of which went beyond what the commission had recommended. That included eliminating all English-language elected school boards and replacing them with a central education authority.
The reforms sparked a public backlash and the Progressive Conservative government withdrew the legislation several months later, after the resignation of former premier Brian Pallister.
No details about what this latest reform package includes have been announced, but Premier Heather Stefanson, who succeeded Pallister, said it would not be a return to Bill 64.
Other recommendations of the K-12 commission included new provincial tests for math and literacy, addressing disparities in education for rural and northern students and taking action to improve outcomes for Indigenous and newcomer students.
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