Union’s Freedom Of Expression Upheld

The province’s teachers say they have won a significant freedom-of-expression victory in a dispute with their employers over what information they may send home with students.

An arbitrator ruled this month that Southeast Kootenay school district violated teachers’ rights when it refused to allow them to give a union pamphlet to students for delivery to their parents. The pamphlet criticized standardized tests known as the Foundation Skills Assessment and urged parents to request that their children be excused from writing them.

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