In my last piece I laid out how, with a blanket of amendments made to The Education Act in 2017, the Sask Party government assigned themselves absolute power over K-12 education, schools, teachers, students and even each school’s community council in Saskatchewan.
There’s been a lot of talk about the eligibility of the teachers in some of the province’s registered independent religious schools (aka “private” schools - honest to god the lexicon around this issue is ridiculous), or lack thereof.
On May 9, 2018, about three months after he won the Sask Party leadership race and became Premier, Scott Moe signed one of his very first Order in Council documents, repealing the original Independent Schools Regulations created by the Devine government in the late 80s, then amended in 2012 by the Sask Party to create “qualified” (for public funding) independent schools. That day in May, Moe signed off on replacing the old regs with The Registered Independent School Regulations (we’ll call them the “New Regs”).
Remember, provincial regulations can be generated and/or repealed solely by the Sask Party government, without any requirement for public consultation or any Official Opposition scrutiny.
After reading the New Regs, my first thought was “Why bother”?
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