List of school districts in New Brunswick
There are seven school districts in the province of New Brunswick, Canada, each with their elected councils. The Minister of Education in New Brunswick is currently Claire Johnson, replacing Bill Hogan.
Established under the Education Act of New Brunswick, a District Education Council provides a local governance and community input mechanism at the district level. DECs consist of 11 to 13 education councillors elected for four-year terms, with responsibility for elections given to the Elections NB corporation, officiated by the Chief Administrative Officer.
History
Merging and renaming of 2012
As of September 2012, the Government of New Brunswick decided to merge and rename all the school districts changing the number of districts from 14 to 7. By doing this, the provinces minister of education estimates $5 million would be saved in administrative costs. This was done by merging by language, francophone and anglophone as described below:- Anglophone West was created by merging districts 14, 17, and 18.
- Anglophone South was created by merging districts 6, 8, and 10.
- Anglophone East was previously known as district 2.
- Anglophone North was created by merging districts 15 and 16.
- Francophone Sud was created by merging districts 1 and 11.
- Francophone Nord-Ouest was previously known as district 3.
- Francophone Nord-Est was created by merging districts 5 and 9.