Kinomaadswin Education Body board of directors selection underway

September 18, 2015
Anishinabek Nation Education Negotiator, Tracey O’Donnell, and Federal Negotiator, Murray Pridham, initialed the Anishinabek Nation Education Agreement on July 30, 2015, signalling that a table level agreement had been reached and that the Education Agreement would advance to the ratification stage of the process.
Anishinabek Nation Education Negotiator, Tracey O’Donnell, and Federal Negotiator, Murray Pridham, initialed the Anishinabek Nation Education Agreement on July 30, 2015, signalling that a table level agreement had been reached and that the Education Agreement would advance to the ratification stage of the process.

UOI OFFICES (Nipissing FN) – A new Kinomaadswin Education Body Board of Directors will be selected in the upcoming weeks.
Two persons from each of five (5) Regional Education Councils (RECs) make up the Kinomaadswin Education Body Board of Directors. REC #4 will meet on Sept. 22 in North Bay, REC #1 in Thunder Bay on Sept. 24, REC #3 in Little Current on Sept. 28, REC #2 in Sudbury on Oct. 2 and REC #5 in Orillia on Oct. 6.
Grand Council Chief Patrick Madahbee says that we need to maintain the momentum that we have created through the decision-making process.
“The fact that we now have 22 Band Council Resolutions in hand and more on their way in support of holding a ratification vote on the Anishinabek Nation Education Agreement is impressive,” says Madahbee. “For many years we have been working to improve our education system. We have to remember that this is for our children.”
The long-standing Anishinabek Education System vision statement reads: “We, the Anishinabek, are responsible to educate our children so that in the generations to follow there will always be Anishinaabe. Our education system will prepare our citizens for a quality of life based on the highest standards of Anishinaabe intellectual, holistic knowledge that supports the preservation and on-going development of Anishinaabe.”
The development of the Anishinabek Education System is based on the Anishinabek First Nations inherent jurisdiction over education: First Nation control of First Nation education.
A ratification vote for the Anishinabek Education System will take place during the week of November 28 – December 2, 2016 .
The Anishinabek Nation Education Agreement was initialled by the negotiators on July 30, 2015. The initialling signaled the end of the negotiation process and the beginning of the communications process to prepare Anishinabek citizens for the ratification vote next year.
For more information, please contact Mary Laronde, Ratification Communications Coordinator, at 1-877-702-5200 or email mary.laronde@anishinabek.ca