No money for schools
The Education Minister has told school districts to use what they've got saved up.
Langley Advance
By Heather Colpitts
September 04, 2009

…. The minister also touched on the all-day kindergarten that sees half the students starting in 2010 and the rest the next school year. …. The province estimates that most districts will, because of declining enrolments, have sufficient classroom space. For any district without enough room for full-day kindergarten, the minister suggested moving older students into modular buildings and putting the five-year-olds in the main buildings.

As for teachers, she said the drop in student number - 53,000 since 2001 - means there are laid-off teachers the districts can hire.