There are seven school districts in the province of New Brunswick, Canada. The Minister of Education in New Brunswick is currently Bill Hogan, MLA for Carleton.
Current school districts[edit]
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History
[edit]Merging and renaming of 2012
[edit]As of September 2012, the Government of New Brunswick decided to merge and rename all the school districts changing the number of districts from 14 to 7.[5] By doing this, the provinces minister of education estimates $5 million would be saved in administrative costs.[6] This was done by merging by language, francophone and anglophone as described below:
- Anglophone West was created by merging districts 14, 17, and 18.
- Anglophone South was created by merging districts 6, 8, and 10.
- Anglophone East was previously known as district 2.
- Anglophone North was created by merging districts 15 and 16.[7]
- Francophone Sud was created by merging districts 1 and 11.
- Francophone Nord-Ouest was previously known as district 3.
- Francophone Nord-Est was created by merging districts 5 and 9.[8]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Education Outline 2019 GNB
- ^ Education Outline 2019 GNB
- ^ Pupil/Educator Ratio GNB
- ^ Dropout Rate GNB
- ^ Jody Carr cuts school districts to 7
- ^ Halving the number of school districts would save $5 million
- ^ Anglophone School Districts in New Brunswick
- ^ Francophone School Districts in New Brunswick