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SD5 scores big on provincial funding fronts
Southeast Kootenay School District No. 5 (SD5) is getting $635,216 through the Learning Improvement Fund and $105,060 through the BC Education Plan Fund, the provincial government announced April 25.
The Learning Improvement Fund is being targeted to support students with special needs by hiring additional teachers and teaching assistants, providing additional teaching time and funding professional development and training to help teachers address the complex needs in their classrooms.
The BC Education Plan Fund is being targeted to programs to support struggling readers so that students receive the interventions and support they need to develop strong reading skills, which is the critical foundation to success in school.
“Although the BCTF seems intent on painting our policies as negatively as
they can, we have always kept students’ best interests at heart, and we continue to make them a priority with these new funding announcements. When we passed Bill 22 and created the Learning Improvement Fund, the NDP and the BCTF insisted no good would come of it. Well, here’s the living proof that something really good is coming from Bill 22 and from the Learning Improvement Fund, as well as from the new BC Education Plan,” noted Kootenay East MLA Bill Bennett.
The B.C. government is doubling the Learning Improvement Fund from $30 million to $60 million for the coming school year. The increase is due to province wide operational savings of $37 million resulting from last month’s three-day teachers’ strike, a government press release states.
All of the strike savings will remain with school districts with $30 million being applied to Learning Improvement Fund, and the remaining $7 million to be used by school boards for educational priorities in their respective districts.
For more information on the Learning Improvement Fund, please visit https://www.newsroom.gov.bc.ca/2012/04/strike-savings-boost-bcs-learning-improvement-fund.html
For more information on the BC Education Plan Fund, please visit https://www.newsroom.gov.bc.ca/2012/03/students-help-chart-the-future-of-bc-education.html
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