BC's Education Budget Faces 'Structural Shortfall': Enrolment is dropping, but not fixed costs. School trustees, administrators sound alarms.
By Crawford Kilian
TheTyee.ca

Both the New Democrats and the BC Liberals have pledged to maintain funding levels for elementary and secondary education in the province, but the people who have the job of meeting school budgets say they'll need more in order to deal with changing realities…

Preparing for special-needs students

Denesiuk says other issues for trustees include money to train new teachers to ensure student success. "We want teacher training to prepare teachers for special-needs students. Integration of such students is working well, but we want to do a better job for every student."

The Liberals have also promised "early learning" programs for four-year-olds, and full-day kindergarten. Denesiuk supports those programs, but not all schools will have the physical space to implement them -- or the money to convert regular classrooms to meet program requirements….

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