SRSD board approves partnership with East Central First Nation Education Authority

The Saskatchewan Rivers School Division (SRSD) Board of Education has approved an education partnership with East Central First Nation Education Authority that will work to better support students and the education system. Three Cree First Nations are in the East Central First Nation Education Authority: Cumberland House Cree Nation, the James Smith Cree Nation, and the Shoal Lake Cree Nation. The agreement must be approved by other parties before it can move forward. “We have got a really good education services agreement that is more than just tuition, so it’s a good place to be,” said Director of Education Robert Bratvold. “[W]e believe that it’s done, that it’s in a good place, and we will have some formal signing of it to ratify it at the end of May.”