Exploring Theme: "Funding for Aboriginal Schools"

Kâpapâmahchakwêw, Wandering Spirt school, part of the Toronto District School Board, celebrates its first graduates. Welcomed its first cohort of Grade 9 students in the fall of 2107, added Grade 10 in 2018, Grade 11 in 2019 and Grade 12 in 2020. The school integrates values, language and culture into the curriculum. “Indigenous perspectives are...

Ontario Government – is expanding the Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP) for eligible programs at Indigenous Institutes starting in the 2020-21 academic year. This financial assistance will help ensure Indigenous learners have access to a culturally responsive and high-quality postsecondary education that will prepare them to meet local labour market needs. Beginning this year, Ontario is...

Gabriel Dumont Institute opened the 8,400 square foot expansion that houses the Institute’s Métis Culture and Heritage Department and Gabriel Dumont Institute Press. It also includes the Métis museum, art gallery, a new boardroom, and office space. ...

CBC – Inuit leaders are slamming the Nunavut government for its decision to pull funding from Canada’s first and oldest Inuit post-secondary school, $175,000-a-year funding agreement to Nunavut Sivuniksavut, which is located in Ottawa. That three-year funding commitment began in 2015 and accounts for 11.4% of its operating budget. “The GN, and specifically the Department...

CBC – The Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning — the N.W.T.’s ‘bush university’ — is voicing concerns that proposed territorial legislation would exclude it from core public funding. A new discussion paper by the territorial government on the governance of post-secondary institutions — the first step toward accrediting such institutions in the territory says Indigenous...

NAN Chiefs, in consultation with NAN communities, have been working together for over 30 years on developing a First Nation education system that would meet the needs of our communities. The NAN Chiefs-in-Assembly also adopted Resolution #17/65, mandating NAN to share the First Nations Education Framework with our First Nations communities and gather feedback. The...

The federal government has signed a self-governance agreement “Anishinabek Nation Education Agreement” with 23 Ontario First Nations, the largest such deal of its kind in Canada. The agreement grants communities greater control over education on reserve from junior kindergarten to Grade 12. It also allows First Nations to wield more administrative control of funding for post-secondary...

The Government of Canada and the Manitoba First Nations Education Resource Centre are pleased to announce today the historic signing of an Education Governance Agreement for the creation of the Manitoba First Nations school board with funding and autonomy comparable to provincial school divisions. Fully operational for the 2017-18 school year....

MOU for First Nations Education in Alberta established an Aboriginal Education Circle between Treaties 6 and Treaty 8 First Nations and Treaty 7 Management Corporation and the Alberta and Canadian Governments as well as creating an Indigenous Knowledge and Wisdom Centre (IKWC) to collectively address all aspects of the education system in order to achieve better...