Education spokesperson: Reid Stewart (306-446-4512 / rvs012001@hotmail.com)

Education policy from the 2007 "Green Book":

• Fund a minimum of 60% of the cost of education from sources other than property tax, which will reduce the tax burden on property.
• Create an equitable formula that fairly distributes the remaining tax burden on property so as to eliminate the currently unbalanced rural - urban system.
• Extend summer student employment programs to include new graduates from Saskatchewan post-secondary institutions, to encourage the business sector to hire them, and so they do not have to leave the province.
• Restore funding to post-secondary institutions and reduce their dependence on corporate research funding grants.
• Reduce tuition to post-secondary education to levels of the past, the lowest in Canada.

Education Resolutions 1998-2007:

1998.9. Post secondary education
Be it resolved that the Green Party of Saskatchewan endorse and work toward a publicly-funded universally-accessible system of post-secondary education in the country, and
Be it further resolved that the Green Party of Saskatchewan establish a zero-tuition fee policy for post-secondary education similar to that which exists in Mexico.

1998.10. Corporations and schools
Be it resolved that the Green Party of Saskatchewan oppose any corporate involvement in Canada's elementary and secondary schools.

1999.2. Education:
That university education be offered free of charge to Saskatchewan residents.

2000.5 - Labour History
RESOLVED that the Green Party of Saskatchewan will work to pressure the provincial government to amend the education curriculum at both the elementary and secondary levels to include courses about the history of cooperative and labour movements.
Presented by member, Richard Zwolinski, 1812 Grant Drive, Regina, Sask. S4S 4V4

2002.7. Student incentives
BE IT RESOLVED that any person who has lived in Saskatchewan and has graduated from a post-secondary institution will be entitled to a maximum, non-transferable $2000 tax reduction for each year of work following their graduation if they continue to work and reside in Saskatchewan up to the same number of years that it takes to normally complete their course of study.

2003.19. Support early childhood intervention program
BE IT RESOLVED that a Green Party of Saskatchewan Government will accept responsibility for funding early childhood intervention and “pre-school programs” where required, in addition to traditional responsibility for the K-12 education system.

2003.20.   Support ecological literacy education
BE IT RESOLVED that a Green Party of Saskatchewan Government will ensure the implementation of an “Ecological Literacy” curriculum in all Saskatchewan schools which also has practical application components.

2003.21. Mandating effective “School Councils”
BE IT RESOLVED that a Green Party of Saskatchewan Government will mandate the democratic establishment of “School Councils” for each Saskatchewan school, these School Councils to have the responsibility, along with adequate funds, to make appropriate school-based decisions.

2005.4. Promote “Treaty Education”
Be it Resolved that a Green Party of Saskatchewan government, in co-operation with First Nations governments, will promote “treaty education” at all levels of our formal education system as well as through public information efforts.

Platform 2007:

A GPS government will restore provincial funding to school districts, support and fund pre-school programs, restore funding to post- secondary institutions, and reduce tuition for higher education to levels of the past, the lowest in Canada.

Platform 2003:

A Green Party of Saskatchewan government will accept responsibility for funding early childhood intervention and “pre-school programs” where required, in addition to traditional responsibility for the K-12 education system.

A Green Party of Saskatchewan government will ensure the implementation of an “Ecological Literacy” curriculum, which also has practical application components, in all Saskatchewan schools.

A Green Party of Saskatchewan government will mandate the democratic establishment of “School Councils” for each Saskatchewan school, these School Councils to have the responsibility, along with adequate funds, to make appropriate school-based decisions.

A Green Party of Saskatchewan government will restore adequate public funding to Saskatchewan's universities. The corporate sector's growing stranglehold on universities shall be eliminated. All qualified citizens of Saskatchewan are entitled to free higher education as they are to health care and secondary education. For all academically qualified residents, student tuition fees will be rapidly reduced and eventually eliminated for four years of education.