Tag Archives: Education

'Rising up in love': Meadow Lake celebrates Orange Shirt Day
With a microphone in her hand at the Meadow Lake Civic Centre, Vitaline Read shared a story with school children, community members and other survivors of her time in the Beauval Indian Residential Sc...
Sep 30, 2024

'Step by step' : Educators see progress in Truth and Reconciliation education
A little girl pointed up at the wall of her school gym and said, "Look, there's a Mtis flag up there." To anyone else hearing that, it may have just been a comment in passing, but for Sherron Burns, i...
Sep 27, 2024

Challenge to Saskatchewan’s pronoun law gets its day in court
REGINA - Saskatchewan's Court of Appeal is hearing arguments about a provincial law that requires parental consent when children under 16 want to change their names or pronouns at school.A judge ruled...
Sep 23, 2024

Court to hear appeal arguments over challenge to Saskatchewan's pronoun law
Saskatchewan's Appeal Court is set to hear arguments over the next two days about a provincial law that requires parental consent when children under 16 want to change their names or pronouns at schoo...
Sep 23, 2024

Sask. post-secondary institutions navigating effects of international student cap
While the full impact of a cap on international students in Canada remains to be seen, some of the post-secondary institutes in Saskatchewan expect it will be minimal here, considering how the provinc...
Sep 21, 2024

NESD Board votes to discontinue Grades 7 to 12 in Star City
The North East School Division Board of Education has voted to discontinue Grades 7 through 12, starting in the fall of 2025. The division made the decision based on recommendations from both the Star...
Sep 20, 2024

Weapons found in Dillon school yard
Police are investigating after several weapons were found in the playground of a school in Dillon on August 30. Buffalo Narrows RCMP were told about three weapons, a knife, a sword and a hatchet, whic...
Sep 19, 2024

Carrot River celebrates grand opening of new school
The new Carrot River Valley School was celebrated Monday morning, as students, teachers, community members, and provincial dignitaries were in attendance for a grand opening ceremony.While students fr...
Sep 16, 2024

When it comes to banning cellphones, the P.A. kids are not alright
Just a few days into the new school year and students at Saskatchewan's largest high school have already made up their minds about the province's ban on cellphones during class time:"It sucks," said G...
Sep 05, 2024

Busy year in the works for Horizon School Division
The school year has begun in the Horizon School Division and the Director of Education is eager to get things underway. Kevin Garinger told northeastNOW teachers, staff, and administration seek to foc...
Sep 04, 2024