education cuts

Teachers Rally against Cuts to Education

Teachers Care — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 10:40:39 +0000

Cole Harbour - About 300 teachers rallied against cuts to education outside premier Darrell Dexter's constituency office Friday afternoon after the end of the school day.

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Education...for Some?

bsichel — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 21:36:19 +0000

Teaching assistants concerned that cuts to education are leaving students with learning disabilities behind

“Before I started school, I literally could not speak,” says Kyle Hunter.

“My diagnosis before I started school was Pervasive Development Disorder (PDD), ” says the teaching assistant (TA) with the Cape Breton-Victoria Regional School Board (CBVRSB). But despite his struggles early on, Hunter succeeded in school, and has held his current job for three years.

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"We've always been really solid on student issues"

katie.toth — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:55:57 +0000

Megan Leslie hopes NDP Post-Secondary Education Act will bring youth back to the ballots

Megan Leslie is hitting the campaign trail again, with a freshly released NDP platform that she says makes accessible post-secondary education a priority.

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February 2011: News in brief

bsichel — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 01:54:29 +0000

Students take a stand, cops put out hands, fracking canned

Cutting School

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Ceremonial decapitation of all three provincial party leaders

macdonaldtomw — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 01:12:09 +0000

On the Student Day of Action on Feb 2, 2011 in Halifax, NS, a group of former students wheeled a homemade mock guillotine into the center of the intersection at Spring Garden and South Park.

The demonstrators proceeded to decapitate 3 dummies representing the 3 major political parties in Nova Scotia.

Nova Scotia in Review: January

bsichel — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:03:32 +0000

The Halifax Media Co-op's Review of underreported news from December

HRM city council was hit with a $21-million bill - $11-million over budget – for construction of an overpass linking Bayers Lake’s Big Box stores to Clayton Park.

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