The key focus of the evening was dealing with the ever shrinking school basic budget, the potential use of locked-empty classrooms and a warning about the potential short fall this September in the funding of the Early Learning Program.
Budget Debate Part 2 – Opening classrooms
June 11, 2010
Opening empty/locked classrooms Does fairness mean sameness? Does equity in school facilities dictate that every school should be a duplicate of the others within a school board? On June 9th trustees debated whether it was fair to open locked classrooms in some elementary schools, when some schools had none to open. Schools differ widely in [...]
Budget Debate Part 3 ELP/ELK Shortfall
June 11, 2010
Early Learning Program /Early Learning Kindergarten Budget Shortfall Last January the provincial government announced the new Early Learning Program and Early Learning Full-day Kindergarten for a September 2010 start. The Ministry of Education determined which schools would have the program in 2010-2011 and promised that all elementary schools would have the ELP/ELK within four years. [...]
Budget Update – Who needs textbooks?
May 21, 2010
The SCDSB staff presented an overview of the 2010-11 budget on May 19, 2010 to trustees. The operating budget at $503 million reflects funding as detailed in the March 26, 2010 Ministry of Education (MOE) Memo 2010-11 Grants for Students Needs (GSN). The total value of the operating budget is a combination of a wide [...]
Mothballs – boules de naphtaline – Empty classrooms for French?
April 9, 2010
This past year it has become an all too common occurrence that one or two classrooms in a school have been closed off and locked. Within the SCDSB there are currently 27 elementary schools with 35 empty “mothballed” classrooms. Total funding for classrooms is determined by funding by province funding and allocations within the overall [...]
