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E. Grant Gibbons

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1 Dec 2017 House of Assembly
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Supplementary, Mr. Speaker.
1 Dec 2017 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, as the Honourable Member will know, the Board of Educ ation does not have operational responsibility. The i m-plementation of the Plan is one that is required to be done by the Department. Could the Honourable Member please explain who in the Department will be lea ding this exercise?
1 Dec 2017 House of Assembly
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Yes, supplementary, Mr. Speaker.
1 Dec 2017 House of Assembly
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Could the Honourable Member give us an update on the replacement or resolution of the issues surrounding the former Commi ssioner? [Inaudible interjections]
1 Dec 2017 House of Assembly
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Perhaps I can put it another way.
1 Dec 2017 House of Assembly
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Okay, thank you, Mr. Speaker. As the former Commissioner would have been intricately involved with development of the S trategic Plan, perhaps the Honourable Member can give us an indication of how his replacement is coming along, because it is the responsibility of the Board of Educ ation to, in fact, make a recommendation. [Inaudible interjections]
1 Dec 2017 House of Assembly
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No, actually, Mr. Speaker, it is a second question. I had asked my first question and two supplementaries.
1 Dec 2017 House of Assembly
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Yes, thank you. Second question.
1 Dec 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I have not had a chance to read this Strategic Plan; I assuming the Minister has. Per-haps he could do a little better than that and give us a little bit more of a fulsome response in terms of — [ Inaudible interjections]
1 Dec 2017 House of Assembly
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— whether the Strategic Plan would include issues of, for example, teaching coding and at what level? How will this be addressed in the public schools because the private schools are already well on top of this?
1 Dec 2017 House of Assembly
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Second supplementary. The Speaker: Go ahead.
1 Dec 2017 House of Assembly
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Yes. So, Mr. Speaker, if I may ask the Minister, is there going to be a curriculum developed for this or will the existing curriculum su ffice?
1 Dec 2017 House of Assembly
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I am up to a third.
1 Dec 2017 House of Assembly
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Third question, Mr. Speaker, yes.
1 Dec 2017 House of Assembly
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Yes, exactly. Mr. Speaker, could the Minister say whet her there is anything in the Plan which address the decli ning numbers of students over the last few years in the public school system that relates to consolidation of schools, or perhaps closure of schools, because clearly this was something that the depar tment was looking at going back a …
1 Dec 2017 House of Assembly
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I do have a supplementary, Mr. Speaker —
1 Dec 2017 House of Assembly
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—in relation to the Mini ster’s answer to my question about consolidation.
1 Dec 2017 House of Assembly
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Could t he Minister please give us an understanding of what the timeframe is to review the schools, and the necessity for the number of schools given the plan for the closing of middle schools? Are we talking about 2018? Are we talking about 2019? What timeframe i s the Minister likely to come back to this House with a …
1 Dec 2017 House of Assembly
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Would it not be simpler, with respect, to the Honourable Member , and instead of . . . I was not quite sure what he was saying, but “where required recommend sanctions”? Would that not just be . . . insert the word “recommend” after [the word] “required,” would that not do the job? Hon. Michael J. Scott: I will …
1 Dec 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you . [Crosstalk]