Catholic school division responds to funding cut
North Battleford area’s Catholic school division will be reviewing its plans ahead following the province’s announcement of a 1.2 per cent operating funding cut across school divisions in Saskatchewan.
Local school division Light of Christ’s chief financial officer Jordan Kist pointed out the division still needs to ascertain how it will be impacted, and planning has already begun.
He said Light of Christ Catholic School is actually receiving a decrease of 5.4 per cent on the school division operating year. The province’s figures for the 1.2 per cent decrease relate to the provincial budget-year period instead.
“Regarding the specifics about what does the actual number cut mean for our school division, we won’t know until until we continue to work though this for the next couple of weeks,” Kist said.