Teachers, students and parents spent an hour of their spring break Wednesday doing loops around the Manitoba Legislative Building — with car horns blaring — in protest of sweeping reforms to the K-12 public school system.
Among the hundreds of drivers and passengers who hitched rides to a honk-a-thon against the Education Modernization Act was a protester carrying a homemade report card for Premier Brian Pallister; it bore a giant red “F.”
Manitoba unveiled Bill 64, which would replace elected school boards with a centralized authority of government appointees, two weeks ago.“This (legislation) is not a modernization of education; it hurts […]
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