Province increases funding to public school divisions for record high 2021-22 school year
Corwyn Friesen, mySteinbach
Posted on 02/08/2021 at 11:00 am
Manitoba’s public schools system will see another increase in the Funding of Schools Program for the 2021-22 school year of $20.8 million, or 1.56 per cent, for a total $1.35 billion, the highest total investment in Manitoba’s history.
The increase includes $6.7 million, or a 0.5 per cent increase to base funding for public schools, and this year’s commitment includes an additional $5.5 million for special needs funding for school divisions, along with other grants. This special needs funding supports students with disabilities and with exceptional needs, providing student specific supports determined by school teams such as educational assistants or assistive technology.
Released students gather at the Government House with other students from the Government Science Secondary school, in Kankara, in northwestern Katsina State, Nigeria upon their release on December 18, 2020. – More than 300 Nigerian schoolboys were released on Thursday after being abducted in an attack claimed by Boko Haram, officials said, although it was unclear if any more remained with their captors (Photo by Kola SULAIMON / AFP)
In the wake of kidnapping of over 300 schoolchildren from Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State, Head, Education Desk, IYABO LAWAL, examines what happened to the Safe School Initiative launched in 2014, which reportedly attracted millions of dollars from donors.
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The provincial deficit is now forecast to be more than $2 billion for the 2020-21 fiscal year, a drop of almost $900 million since the first-quarter update, which was predicting a $2.9 billion shortfall.
Finance Minister Scott Fielding and Premier Brian Pallister delivered the update on Thursday and say the improvement for the second quarter is due primarily to the inclusion of $648 million of federal transfers to the province for COVID-19 spending. The province also saved $347 million in the reduction of other base-budget expenditures.
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Published 16 December 2020
“It is not just a condolence visit, it is a statement that all of us are fed up with the shedding of innocent blood under whatever guise across this country. So many lives have been lost in the past, we can’t even compute how many lives we have lost. It becomes like a daily occurrence, a daily event. A new normal, it becomes a story when in a day, nobody was killed in a particular place of this country.”
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