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Glaze Report"). The report suggested several changes to the administration of educational services, the most significant of which was that the province's seven
English language locally elected school boards be dissolved and replaced with new administrative bodies managed directly by the province. To offset loss of local involvement in education, responsibility for student assessment would be removed from the Department of Education and entrusted to a newly formed Student Progress Assessment Office (SPAO), which would report directly to the public.
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action for several weeks. Premier McNeil rejected the NSTU's position as financially impractical, while Union
President Liette Ducette cited lack of effective attendance and student discipline policies as contributing factors in the job action. In early February 2017 the members of the
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Justice John Keith ruled the bill was unconstitutional, its implementation "terribly wrong," and that it weakened the union's ability to be involved in classroom improvements. A poll of the Nova Scotia public in 2018 found that 66% of Nova
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English school boards in Nova Scotia were dissolved and replaced with provincially run centres for education, and administrators were removed from the NSTU. The Student Progress Assessment Office (SPAO) was never formed.
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stated that “By his reckless actions, the premier has committed the taxpayers of Nova Scotia to years of legal challenges and millions of dollars in legal costs.” Baillie pointed out that similar bills in
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Regional Centres for Education. This shifted responsibility for educational services in Nova Scotia from locally elected boards to a council of administrators appointed directly by the
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disruptions, contributed to a general reduction in PISA scores globally, but Nova Scotia declined more than the
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in March 2018. The act dissolved Nova Scotia's seven English language
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