Ottawa to back recommendation for bilingual Inuit schools (fwd link)

[Phillip E Cash Cash]

Ottawa to back recommendation for bilingual Inuit schools

The Canadian Press

Date: Monday Jun. 13, 2011 3:36 PM ET

Federal Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan will back a report calling
for Inuit children to receive bilingual education in their aboriginal
language of Inuktitut and either English or French, The Canadian Press has
learned.

Duncan will be present at a Thursday news conference releasing a national
strategy on Inuit education. The report is the result of more than two years
of work by federal, territorial and aboriginal officials.

Bilingual education is seen as a major step toward reducing Nunavut's 75 per
cent dropout rate, which is considered the root of many of the Arctic
territory's social ills.


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http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20110613/ottawa-considers-funding-long-awaited-bilingual-schools-110613/
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