Province approved funding to bring together Indigenous student trustees this weekend
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared on The Trillium, a new Village Media website devoted to covering provincial politics at Queen’s Park.
One was $30,000 for travel and accommodations for Indigenous student trustees to meet on the sidelines of OPSBA's Oct. 13–15 meeting that will bring together northern school boards in Sault Ste. Marie. There are 16–18 Indigenous student trustees under OPSBA, which represents English public district school boards across the province. The Ministry of Education has approved $30,000 in one-time funding for the meeting.
Part of Johnston's Aug. 26 letter to Lecce was also to try to secure a meeting with the minister, something she said they're still waiting on. "The Indigenous Trustees' Council has had a good relationship with the minister ... and we're grateful for that, and so we're asking to continue that relationship and have that face-to-face conversation with us," she said, adding that Lecce attended the council's meeting last year along with several assistant deputy ministers and other ministry officials.
In her letter, Johnston wrote, "We are all aware that we must act quickly to revitalize and maintain Indigenous languages in Ontario or risk losing them forever. This must be a priority."
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