Support the Tuition Support Bill - Contact your MLA

Today Mr. Glavine (liberal education critic) introduced a amendment to the education act to incorporate the provision for tuition support until the public system can provide a equal level of support. After introduction of the bill, the Minister of Education-Ms. Casey made a point to meet briefly with Wade Brummet-Chair of EEANS and myself. She has assured us that it is not the government's intention to withdraw support for a program that is obviously filling a need not met by the public system. She has also committed to providing the government's response to the report's 27 recommendations within the next 2 weeks. When we pressed her to make changes to the regulations limiting the program to 3 years however, she did not answer. For this reason it is important that you contact your MLA and ask him or her to support Mr Glavine's bill regardless of their party affiliation. If you have a conservative MLA, please remind them it they would be failing the children of Nova Scotia if the government does not call this bill into its 1st reading. The press release for the bill is below. We expect more discussion on the bill and questions of Ms. Casey in the legislature over the next days.