By Dave Baxter Local Journalism Initiative Reporter An agreement originally signed in 2015 to improve educational services and outcomes for Indigenous people was re-signed on Friday, and leaders of this province’s major educational institutions and organizations pledged to continue to work to help Indigenous people succeed in all areas of Manitoba’s education system. A ceremony held Friday morning at the RRC Polytech campus in downtown Winnipeg, saw representatives from Manitoba’s major universities and colleges join with Indigenous education leaders, political leaders, and Manitoba school board representatives to re-sign the Manitoba Collaborative Indigenous Education Blueprint (the Blueprint), and to recommit to the recommendations made in the Blueprint. When it was first signed in 2015, the Blueprint was touted as an “official partnership agreeing to advance commitments informed by the
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