NORTEP Funding to be Discontinued in 2017
Background and Resources
1. NORTEP/NORPAC is a partnership of northern school divisions, bands, the University of Regina and the University of Saskatchewan, to provide aboriginal-specific teacher education degree programs with northern and indigenous content and up to three years of arts and sciences courses required for other professional university degree programs.
2. Government Funding 2015 Government News Release
https://www.saskatchewan.ca/government/news-and-media/2015/september/23/nortep
3. Government Funding 2016 NORTEP News Release
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/nortep-funding-discontinued-saskatchewaneducation-1.3731140
4. SK Ministry of Advanced Education, plan and priorities
https://www.saskatchewan.ca/government/government-structure/ministries/advanced-education
Key Messages:
1. Northern Saskatchewan schools have ongoing challenges to recruit and retain teachers.
2. Access to education should not require cultural displacement. Educate teachers from the north for the north in the north.
3. NORTEP, established in 1976, has a proven culturally relevant and successful teacher preparation program: 100% of the 2016 grads are employed in Northern Saskatchewan.
4. Maintain funding promised in 2015 and plan for continued future funding.
Write To: Hon. Bronwyn Eyre, Minister
Minister of Advanced Education
Room 307, Legislative Building, 2405 Legislative Drive
Regina, SK, Canada, S4S 0B3 or
E-mail: minister.ae@gov.sk.ca
Copy: Superannuated Teachers of Saskatchewan
2311 Arlington Ave, Saskatoon, SK S7J 2H8 or
E-mail: sts@sts.sk.ca
Saskatchewan Teachers'
Background and Resources
1. NORTEP/NORPAC is a partnership of northern school divisions, bands, the University of Regina and the University of Saskatchewan, to provide aboriginal-specific teacher education degree programs with northern and indigenous content and up to three years of arts and sciences courses required for other professional university degree programs.
2. Government Funding 2015 Government News Release
https://www.saskatchewan.ca/government/news-and-media/2015/september/23/nortep
3. Government Funding 2016 NORTEP News Release
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/nortep-funding-discontinued-saskatchewaneducation-1.3731140
4. SK Ministry of Advanced Education, plan and priorities
https://www.saskatchewan.ca/government/government-structure/ministries/advanced-education
Key Messages:
1. Northern Saskatchewan schools have ongoing challenges to recruit and retain teachers.
2. Access to education should not require cultural displacement. Educate teachers from the north for the north in the north.
3. NORTEP, established in 1976, has a proven culturally relevant and successful teacher preparation program: 100% of the 2016 grads are employed in Northern Saskatchewan.
4. Maintain funding promised in 2015 and plan for continued future funding.
Write To: Hon. Bronwyn Eyre, Minister
Minister of Advanced Education
Room 307, Legislative Building, 2405 Legislative Drive
Regina, SK, Canada, S4S 0B3 or
E-mail: minister.ae@gov.sk.ca
Copy: Superannuated Teachers of Saskatchewan
2311 Arlington Ave, Saskatoon, SK S7J 2H8 or
E-mail: sts@sts.sk.ca
Saskatchewan Teachers'