BILL NO. 154
(as introduced)
4th Session, 61st General Assembly
Nova Scotia
61 Elizabeth II, 2012
Education Act
(amended)
Eddie Orrell
Cape Breton North
First Reading: November 28, 2012
Second Reading:
Third Reading:
Explanatory Notes
Clause 1 limits class sizes in grades primary to three to no more than 25 students unless otherwise requested by a school advisory council and approved by the Minister.
Clause 2 provides that moneys needed to implement Clause 1 be paid from moneys appropriated for that purpose by the Legislature.
An Act to Amend Chapter 1
of the Acts of 1995-96,
the Education Act
1 Subject to Section 2, Chapter 1 of the Acts of 1995-96, the Education Act, is amended by adding immediately after Section 5 the following Section:
6 Unless otherwise requested by the school advisory council for a public school and approved by the Minister, the public school may not have more than twenty-five students in a class for grades primary, one, two or three or any grade combination thereof.
2 The money required for the purpose of this Act must be paid out of money appropriated for that purpose by the Legislature.
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