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WINNIPEG The Pembina Trails School Division is taking $1.5 million from its accumulated surplus fund to offset expenditures, and cutting nearly $7 million worth of spending for budget 2021/22. The school division said it has been forced into this position from a combination of factors, including a government directive to freeze property taxes, pandemic- related costs and a recent arbitration award. Deferring an unprecedented amount in infrastructure maintenance and using $930 thousand from our surplus funds to cover necessary building repairs is far from ideal and not a permanent solution,” said board chair Kathleen McMillan in a news release. The budget will see a reduction in middle years’ teacher-librarian time by 25 per cent, and high schools’ by half. The division will also reduce school instructional budgets, English Additional Language specialists, and divisional-based allocation for educational assistant staff.
WINNIPEG The board of trustees for the Pembina Trails School Division is facing a tough task when it comes to building a proposed budget for the 2021-22 school year. Without doubt this has been the most difficult budget that I and the board has faced since my career as a trustee. We have encountered a necessity to make some very, very difficult decisions, said Kathleen McMillan, who is the chair of the board of trustees. The board released its draft budget on Friday and cited several difficult situations such as growing communities, inflation, an arbitration awarded to the teachers association and on top of that there is the provincial freeze on the property tax levy and the pandemic.
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Beautiful Plains School Division teachers are facing a retroactive salary bump after their association unanimously ratified a new two-year collective agreement on Thursday, which could also pave the way for similar negotiations in the province.
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Beautiful Plains School Division teachers are facing a retroactive salary bump after their association unanimously ratified a new two-year collective agreement on Thursday, which could also pave the way for similar negotiations in the province.
The retroactive salary on the two-year agreement, that expired on June 30, 2020, includes a 1.6 per cent salary increase for the 2018-19 year and a 1.4 per cent increase for the 2019-20 year, according to Beautiful Plains School Division superintendent Jason Young.
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Class sizes, support staff levels and school instructional budgets in the Pembina Trails School Division could all be affected next year, as the board looks for $7 million in savings in its upcoming budget.
Class sizes, support staff levels and school instructional budgets in the Pembina Trails School Division could all be affected next year, as the board looks for $7 million in savings in its upcoming budget.
The board of trustees unveiled the details of its 2021-22 draft budget at a virtual board meeting Thursday. The trustees discussed financial constraints related to a decrease in provincial funding, growing enrollment, the COVID-19 pandemic, and a recent arbitration award.