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Steve McCready and Coles Island School

Coles Island School: Over time, enrolment has dwindled to a point where the school now teaches 30 students from kindergarten to Grade 5. Still, Steve McCready and others in the community have fought for five months to save it, according to CTV. The area district education council voted this month to close the school. Its future rests with the education minister, who has up to two months to make a final decision and - Coles Island School in New Brunswick has taught children for 58 years but this may be its last. "A school in a rural community is one reason people don't have to move away," said McCready. "Any people with younger families would not even consider moving to a community without a school nearby." (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.