Winnipeg board maintains right to religious education

Interim Staff The Winnipeg School Division defeated a proposal to ask the province to change existing regulations that allow religious instruction in secular schools. Under Manitoba’s Public Schools Act, religious education is permitted if 25 parents from a school petition for religious instruction and activities. Only the children of the parents who signed the petition would then be able to participate. Board chairwoman Suzanne Hrynyk and trustees Kristine Barr and Joyce Bateman proposed that the board ask Manitoba Education Minister Nancy Allan ... (Continue reading)