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Thursday, November 6, 2008

A good start at the school board

Posted by Tim Bousquet on Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 6:40 AM

Chronicle-Herald:

The new Halifax regional school board is turning a page in its own history book. Its nine members voted in Africville activist Irvine Carvery as their chairman during their first meeting Wednesday in Dartmouth.
This is a nice gesture on the part of all the elected members, and might begin to heal wounds with the local black population. There's a lot more work to do, of course. They can start by implementing the recommendations of the provincial 1994 Black Learners Advisory Committee Report and the HRM-specific recommendations of the 2002 school board's own African Nova Scotian advisory committee.

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A chairman must speak for the board and support and defend its decisions. Then there is that stupid new code of conduct, good luck to all of them.

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Posted by Colin on 11/06/2008 at 4:00 AM
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