School Boards See No Increase In Education Funding
Prince George, B.C. – The organization representing school boards across B.C. is very disappointed there is no new money for K-12 education in the government’s 2014 budget.
While the government’s Balanced Budget 2014 news release states, “modest surpluses allow government to make choices and ensure new spending is put into priority areas, B.C. School Trustees Association President Teresa Rezansoff says, “the association is very disappointed that public education and students are not among government’s top priority areas. We think they should be.”
She says Boards of Education consistently face a multitude of rising costs, such as MSP, pension, and utility rate increases, which means that there is a continued escalation of unfunded cost pressures.
The BCSTA continues to deliver the message that an investment in students and the public education system in BC is a smart investment – a low risk, high yield investment – in this province and its future.
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Fewer students, fewer dollars? Hmmmm? That doesn’t make sense. Does it?
Not a surprising fact when the Premier’s child attends a private school – why would this government want to fund public education?
A thousand years ago when I was a parent I wished I could afford to send my kids to private schools. How about “school voucher system” for dough so you can decide which school you would like yer kid to attend. An insult to “loser schools”, but then again….
“If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers – if that’s where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.” ~ Maynard James Keenan
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