20% of all public school water taps <\/a>in the province exceeded the federal government\u2019s lead safety standards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cWhen it comes to the safety of students and staff, the public should know the condition of school ventilation systems,\u201d says Halman. \u201cWe cannot continue to jump through hoops and play games to get transparency and accountability from our government, and certainly not on matters of health and safety.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
[adrotate banner=”34″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On December 9, at the Public Accounts Committee, Halman brought forward a motion requesting that the Committee invite representatives from the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development to answer questions about the federal Safe Return to Class Fund, including the $2.7 million allocated for ventilation inspections and upgrades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Liberals voted against discussing how this money was spent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIf the school ventilation reviews have found no concerns, then there is no reason for the government not to release them and put the minds of parents and staff at ease,\u201d says Halman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
[adrotate group=”7″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n
[adrotate banner=”30″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
[adrotate banner=”95″] [adrotate banner=”105″] DARTMOUTH: Parents and teachers deserve to know what the Liberal government is hiding about school air quality reviews, says PC Education Critic and Dartmouth East MLA Tim Halman. \u201cI worry that the only reason for the Liberals to withhold the schools\u2019 air quality reviews from the public is that they are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[957],"tags":[579,1719,1403,1404],"class_list":["post-19295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-education","tag-p-c-party-of-nova-scotia-tim-houston","tag-pc-party-of-n-s","tag-tim-halman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}