The bill has been delayed to the fall session of legislature by the opposition NDP.  It would eliminate locally elected school boards aside from the French school division and would replace them with school councils that would call on parent involvement and have officials appointed by the government.

When asked about how the bill would impact the four school divisions in the north President Alan Campbell had this to say. When you consider some of the socio-economic challenges that exist in northern Manitoba and the fact that the local school board is there to understand firsthand what some of those challenges are and then to be able to directly allocate resources to try to ensure that the needs of every student and every family are being met by the local public school the idea that a board that’s based in Flin Flon and a board that’s based in The Pas and a board that’s based in Thompson and  the Frontier School Division board with representatives from the communities throughout the Division are now somehow going to be replaced with a group of people that have been appointed by the government should be extremely concerning.

Campbell called the legislation anti-democratic as that it removes the local community voice in education.