Yukon NDP calls for more First Nations teachers – CBC

Dec 10, 2015

Territorial government must do more to recruit aboriginal teachers, MLA Jim Tredger says

Yukon’s opposition NDP is pushing the government to increase the number of First Nations educators in the territory’s schools.

“Yukon First Nations continue to be under-represented in our classrooms,” said MLA Jim Tredger in the legislature on Wednesday. He said the government’s staffing protocols are not working.

“The ratio of First Nations to non-First Nations teachers has remained the same for several years now,” Tredger said.

Tredger said when the territory’s original Education Act was being crafted, there was general agreement that the number of First Nations teachers should be proportional to the number of First Nations people in the territory. That would mean about a quarter of all Yukon teachers would be aboriginal, Tredger said.