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NOTES from the Manitoba School Boards Association annual convention on Friday:
Seine River school trustee Robert Rivard is the new president of the Manitoba School Boards Association.
Rivard was elected by acclamation at this weekend’s annual convention.
Jacquie Field of Pembina Trails is the new vice-president for boards of more than 6,000 students and Floyd Martens of Dauphin-area Mountain View is vice-president for boards of less than 6,000 students.
Manitoba’s school trustees have finally given up — they’ve accepted that school will start the day after Labour Day.
The trustees have long been the only major holdout to the change to the traditional school year the NDP government introduced several years ago. They’ve argued having a school year that runs as few as 183 instructional days, along with 10 professional development and in-service days, cannot possibly cover the entire curriculum.
But about two-thirds of trustees attending this weekend’s annual convention of the Manitoba School Boards Association voted against calling on the government to go back to the old system of 200 school days — which often resulted in classes starting in August.
School trustees have their noses out of joint over Education Minister Nancy Allan’s plans to introduce standardized report cards across the province this fall.
They want more consultation.
“I’m really concerned with the fairly heavy-handed means in which the standardized report card is being foisted on us,” said Brandon trustee Linda Ross.