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Description area
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History
The Education Act of 1864 established the Council of Public Instruction to administer schools in Nova Scotia. The council, consisting of members of the Executive Council, appointed the Superintendent of Education as secretary. The council's powers included regulation and superintendence of the Normal School (Nova Scotia Teachers College), appointment of inspectors, regulation of grants for provincial examiners and libraries, regulation and supervision of boards of school commissioners, designation of holidays, prescription of textbooks, appointment of Provincial Board of Examiners, issuance of teachers' licences and preparation and promulgation of school law (education regulations). In 1949 the responsibilities of the Council of Public Instruction were transferred to the minister of education.