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School trustees from Flin Flon and Creighton will meet this September to discuss a new tuition agreement for Saskatchewan students attending classes on the Manitoba side of the border. At Tuesday's Flin Flon School Board meeting, the trustees reviewed a letter from the Creighton board requesting a meeting be scheduled to work out a new deal. Earlier this year, the Flin Flon board voted to terminate the existing tuition agreement, effective July 1, 2005, in light of the Creighton board's decision to establish a high school program. "The Board of Education of the Creighton School Division agrees that a tuition agreement with the Flin Flon School Division is required following termination of the existing agreement effective July 1, 2005," wrote Terry Brown, Creighton board chairman. "We wish to negotiate a new agreement that will be mutually agreeable to both parties in order to continue to purchase educational services from the Flin Flon School Division." The Creighton board has previously indicated an interest in continuing to send French Immersion students to McIsaac School Ecole McIsaac in Flin Flon. There has also been talk of utilizing Many Faces Education Centre in certain cases. The Flin Flon board referred Brown's letter to Secretary-Treasurer Debbie Bongfeldt, who will set up a meeting date for September. Creighton Community School will begin offering grade 10 programming this September, with grades 11 and 12 to follow in 2005 and 2006 respectively. This will end the decades' old practice of Creighton and Denare Beach students traveling to Flin Flon to conclude their secondary education.5/27/2004
