Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We are not talking about an individual education plan. We are talking about a curriculum which is broadly based for all of the students of the Northwest Territories. For instance in the past, given the results we have seen in some of the School Achievement Indicators Program testing, we have undertaken exercises, like establishing a math camp, to prepare more grade nine students to enter the academically challenging Math 10 course. We have taken on the task of working with the Western Consortium which is a group of four provinces and the Yukon Territory and ourselves, to develop a common math and english language arts curriculum. So, we can say we are expecting the same sort of outcomes at the same levels in school.

We have worked at strengthening the whole numeracy and literacy curriculum to try and improve the results of our students in the territories. We are not trying to use the results to say one school is performing better than another. What we are doing is trying to assess how the curriculum in general is performing in the Northwest Territories. The individual school results are measured by the divisional education councils and the superintendents by making sure the students in each grade are performing to the levels set in the existing curriculum and by watching for problem areas. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.