The Withering of Local Education Governance: Why has ‘Acclamation Disease’ become an Epidemic in New Brunswick?*

Local citizens across New Brunswick could be forgiven for thinking that District Education Councils (DECs) were moribund. Post-municipal election pulse taking, in case you are wondering, revealed little more than a faint pulse in the education body politic. The ‘acclamation disease’ afflicting New Brunswick’s District Education Councils (DECs) can now be classified as an epidemic. [ ]