First Nation school board not invited to meeting with Education Minister

A recent meeting in Lethbridge between Alberta Education Minister Jeff Johnson and southern Alberta school boards did not include the Kainai Board of Education. When Richard Fox, superintendent of the Kainai Board of Education, expressed interest in attending he was told the meeting was for elected school board officials only. “I was just looking at this as an opportunity to meet the new minister,” Fox told the Lethbridge Herald. “I can’t understand what would be so private to not include me as superintendent and the chairman of the board.” Johnson said that since First Nations education is a federal responsibility, meetings about education on reserves would include Alberta Aboriginal Relations, the federal government and band government.