Editing Saskatchewan (section)

== Education ==
{{Main|Education in Saskatchewan}}
Publicly funded elementary and secondary schools in the province are administered by [[List of Saskatchewan school divisions|twenty-seven school divisions]]. Public elementary and secondary schools either operate as [[secular education|secular]] or as a [[separate school]]s. Nearly all school divisions, except one operate as an English [[first language]] school board. The Division scolaire francophone No. 310 is the only school division that operates French first language schools. In addition to elementary and secondary schools, the province is also home to several post-secondary institutions.

The first education on the prairies took place within the family groups of the First Nations and early [[fur trade|fur trading]] settlers. There were only a few missionary or trading post schools established in [[Rupert's Land]] – later known as the [[Territorial evolution of Canada|North West Territories]]. The first 76 [[North-West Territories]] school districts and the first Board of Education meeting formed in 1886. The pioneering boom formed [[Block Settlement|ethnic bloc settlements]]. Communities were seeking education for their children similar to the schools of their homeland. [[Log cabin]]s, and dwellings were constructed for the assembly of the community, school, church, dances and meetings.

The prosperity of the [[Roaring Twenties]] and the success of farmers in proving up on their homesteads helped provide funding to standardize education.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Milne |first=Jennifer |date=February 2004 |title=CULTIVATING DOMESTICITY: THE HOMEMAKERS' CLUBS OF SASKATCHEWAN, 1911 TO 1961 |url=https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/SSU/TC-SSU-07112005100045.pdf |access-date=April 8, 2024 |website=www.collectionscanada.gc.ca |archive-date=April 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240411142014/https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/SSU/TC-SSU-07112005100045.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> Textbooks, normal schools for educating teachers, formal school curricula and state of the art [[One-room school|school house]] [[architectural plan]]s provided continuity throughout the province. English as the school language helped to provide economic stability because one community could communicate with another and goods could be traded and sold in a common language. The number of one-room schoolhouse districts across Saskatchewan totalled approximately 5,000 at the height of this system of education in the late 1940s.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://skschool.site123.me/ |title=Saskatchewan One Room School House Project |website=SkSchool |language=en |access-date=December 10, 2018 |archive-date=August 17, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210817060403/https://skschool.site123.me/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Following World War II, the transition from many one-room schoolhouses to fewer and larger consolidated modern technological town and city schools occurred as a means of ensuring technical education. School buses, highways, and family vehicles create ease and accessibility of a population shift to larger towns and cities. Combines and tractors mean the farmer could manage more than a quarter section of land, so there was a shift from [[family farm]]s and [[subsistence crops]] to [[cash crops]] grown on many sections of land. [[School vouchers]] have been newly proposed as a means of allowing competition between rural schools and making the operation of [[cooperative school]]s practicable in rural areas.