This week we will focus on Part $2$: Education, from the $"94$ Calls to Action"

Watch the video below from CBC$,$ Namwayut: $"$We Are All One. Truth and reconciliation in Canada"

Read below, points #$6-12$ on Education, use the additional pdf attached below, to help further clarify these points.

Also watch the video below, "Educating our Youth: Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada"

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Question: $"$In Part $2$ of the $"94$ Calls to Action" for truth and reconciliation, the importance of education is emphasized as a means to promote understanding, respect, and reconciliation. How can the implementation of these calls to action transform the education system to provide culturally relevant and inclusive education for Indigenous students while fostering cross$-$cultural understanding among all students?"Education

#$6-$ We call upon the Government of Canada to repeal Section $43$ of the Criminal Code of Canada.

#$7-$ We call upon the federal government to develop with Aboriginal groups a joint strategy to eliminate educational and employment gaps between Aboriginal and non$-$Aboriginal Canadians.

#$8-$ We call upon the federal government to eliminate the discrepancy in federal education funding for First Nations children being educated on reserves and those First Nations children being educated off reserves.

#$9-$ We call upon the federal government to prepare and publish annual reports comparing funding for the education of First Nations children on and off reserves, as well as educational and income attainments of Aboriginal peoples in Canada compared with non$-$Aboriginal people.

#$10-$ We call on the federal government to draft new Aboriginal education legislation with the full participation and informed consent of Aboriginal peoples. The new legislation would include a commitment to sufficient funding and would incorporate the following principles $...$

#$11-$ We call upon the federal government to provide adequate funding to end the backlog of First Nations students seeking a post$-$secondary education.

#$12-$ We call upon the federal, provincial, territorial, and Aboriginal governments to develop culturally appropriate early childhood education programs for Aboriginal families.