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government employees: Trustees will be hoping for clarification as to what governance role they play or will be playing within the system, beyond that of frontline apologists for provincial fiscal decisions. , according to Times Colonist. Superintendents, who at one time were government employees but became locally employed in the 1970s, will be watching for any hint of a change in their own relationship with the deputy and government. Local employment changed everything in terms of communication between district leadership and government. The appointment of Rob Wood, CEO of Housing Nova Scotia, as deputy minister in the Ministry of Education, arouses a variety of responses from within the system: curiosity, anxiety, optimism or pessimism, depending on whom you ask. Boards of education had the authority at one time to fund their districts partly through a system of local taxation for which they were directly answerable to their electorate. The effects of the provincial governments 1982 restraint program in curtailing local spending removed from local boards that authority to set district budgets traditionally their most important responsibility. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.