Local schools preparing for budget cuts
Local school divisions will need to get ready for budget cuts after the province announced a 1.2 per cent reduction overall across the province in operating funding for school divisions in its budget, released Wednesday. The overall Ministry of Education spending is down 6.7 per cent from last year.
Shannon Lessard, communications coordinator with Living Sky School Division, said the school division has been preparing for the announcement, although it hasn’t made any plans yet.
“You’re never happy with a decrease,” she said. “But we knew that was coming so it’s not a surprise.
“For us, we have been looking at our budget through this past year because we knew there would be a decrease coming forward,” she added. “Any decisions that we make going forward we will always keep the students’ education at the forefront when we are making those decisions.”