Auditor general says Nova Scotia needs to do better on school violence | SaltWire

Nova Scotia schools have seen violent incidents grow by 60 per cent over the past seven years and the province isn’t equipped to provide safe learning environments, according to a Nova Scotia auditor general's report released Tuesday. Since 2017, school violence incidents have grown from 17,000 to 26,000. Half of those cases were in Halifax County. The numbers are likely much higher since the audit shows weaknesses in the reliability and accuracy of school violence data. It says the provincial education department doesn’t know the full extent of violence in Nova Scotia’s schools and educators also say they’re not always reporting it.
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