N.B. news: Education council votes to take government to court [Video]

The Francophone Sud School District Education Council (DEC) in New Brunswick has decided to take the province to court over what they say is a lack of action when it comes to building new schools and upgrading or expanding the current ones.

“Back in April we sent a formal letter saying that if you want to avoid legal action we need to have a biding, formal agreement on a 10-year plan that will make sure that all of our projects – our 16 projects that we’re asking – are done within the timeframe,” said education council president Michel Côté.

Côté says the first deadline was July 5, which the government then pushed until the end of August.

“At the end of August, there’s an employee from the Department of Education who contacted one of our employees at the district saying that the plan is not ready and we’re looking at maybe late fall or winter,” he said. …