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A longtime educator has a valid question about the efficiencies that deputy premier and Education Minister Don Morgan seems intent on finding through potentially imposing change on the education system.

“If it was such a good idea, why wasn’titimplemented when times were good and when it should have been easier to implement?” he asked.

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Given that the education system seem to have adjusted — voluntarily or otherwise — the question would seem to be valid.

Back in 1992, just as this province went through its last major change inspired by a financial crisis, there were 857 public schools run by 111 school boards to the benefit of 195,936 students — about 228 per school.

As of September 2015, there were a total of 28 school divisions — 18 public, eight Roman Catholic, one Protestant and one Francophone — presiding over 753 schools and 176,301 students.

This is a product of both forced and voluntary amalgamation imposed on school boards, something that just hasn’t been imposed on other sectors of Saskatchewan governance.