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District Education Councils of New Brunswick: Working Together to Improve the Education of New Brunswick Children

District Education Councils (commonly referred to as DECs) were first elected to office in 2001.   Members of DECs are volunteers, and serve four-year terms of office.   DEC elections occur at the same time as municipal and hospital authority elections.  New District Education Councils were recently elected in May 2008. Beginning in October 2009, students will become part of each DEC.

In New Brunswick, the education system is divided into two linguistic sectors, Anglophone (9 districts) and Francophone (5 districts).   There are District Education Councils in each of these school districts.  

Using policy governance, the DECs develop high-level policy and delegate the day-to-day decision making to their Superintendent, the Council’s sole employee.   

The Superintendent is accountable to the DEC for the management of programs and resources, for the quality of learning, and for the implementation of the District Education Plan and District Expenditure Plan.

Updated September 2009

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