New Brunswick’s new education plans should help deliver improved assessment scores, but it will be up to the seven district education councils to work with schools falling short, officials said Thursday.
Deputy minister defends shift from ‘aspirational’ goal to school-by-school improvements
Jacques Poitras · CBC News
· Posted: Oct 08, 2026 4:17 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago
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Ryan Donaghy the deputy education minister, said a goal of 90 per cent of students achieving an appropriate level of literacy is aspirational. (Jacques Poitras/CBC)
New Brunswick’s new education plans should help deliver improved assessment scores but it will be up to the seven district education councils to work with schools falling short, officials said Thursday.
The deputy ministers of the anglophone and francophone sectors, Ryan Donaghy and Julie Mason, faced questions from the legislature’s public accounts committee over a scathing auditor-general’s report in June on literacy outcomes.
Paul Martin said in his report only four anglophone schools passed the Grade 4 reading assessment in 2024-25, and only four francophone schools hit the target in their Grade 2 reading assessments.
The previous 10-year education plan for 2016 to 2026 aimed to have 90 per cent of students achieve an appropriate level of literacy by now.
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