touching all facets of Island life. The education sector, about which Home and School was concerned, had these basic objectives: to improve the quality of education, to double the proportion of students who complete Grade 12, and to give the people of P.E.l. a flexible education, capable of overcoming short- term problems and meeting long-term needs.

To meet these objectives it was considered necessary to consolidate elementary and secondary schools both physically and administratively, to raise teacher qualifications, and to establish a salary scale which would attract people into the teaching profession.

in March, 1968, Mr. Lloyd MacKeen joined the Department of Education to direct educational planning. Mr. MacKeen was a firm believer in the concept of Home and School and from the very outset he wanted Home and School to participate fully in the planning process. Local associations were urged to become more active, to increase their membership, and to form study groups in order to have a strong voice in planning changes.

It is significant that the Minister of Education invited Home and School to name two representatives to his Consultative Committee which was the precursor of the Educational Planning Unit in this province.

From January 1970 until the new School Act was drafted, the Educational Planning Unit worked diligently to make responsible decisions on various phases of school planning — boundaries for administrative units, school design, student-teacher ratios, transportation, curriculum, and so on. The first Chairman of E.P.U. was Donovan Russell, and for the final months in which the unit uvas active Edwin Lewis became its chairman.

Home and School had two representatives on E.P.U., namely Charles Campbell and Mrs. Hesta MacDonald. The unit consistec of a Director of Planning, a Research Officer, three representatives of the Department of Education, four representa- tives fro’n P.E.l. School Trustees Association, two from Home and School, two from P.E.l. Teachers Federation, and the Superintendents of Schools for both Charlottetown and Summer- side. A Regional Planning Board for each proposed administrative unit had a similar pattern of representation.

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