My Archives: August 2006
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
After a long meeting last night, the school board has finailized a 2006-2007 budget that avoids some of the painful special education and outdoor education cuts.
The original proposal can be found on the board's we site. The last minute modifications by trustees re-instated these programs:
- Reinstate Planning Position - $43K
- Reinstate Occupational/Physiotherapist Positions (2.2 FTE) - 146K
- Reinstate Braillist Position (1.0 FTE) - 29K
- Reinstate Audiologist Services - 9K
- Reinstate Community Living Summer Program - 500K
- Reinstate Speech & Language Pathologists Positions (3.0 FTE) - 263K
- Reinstate Outdoor Education Centres (10.5 FTE) - 587K
- Reinstate Educational Assistants (20.0 FTE) - 832K
- Reinstate Multicultural Liaison Officers - 180K
- Reinstate Social Worker Positions (2.0 FTE) - 158K
- Reinstate Psychologist Position (1.0 FTE) - 96K
- Reinstate English as a Second Language Position (1.0 FTE) - 80K
- Special Education Review Implementation - 80K
- Reinstate School Budgets (Partial) - 314K
Posted by Richard Deadman @ 11:25 AM EST [Link]
Friday, August 25, 2006
The Ottawa Carleton District School Board trustees are debating how to address the more than $32 million deficit they are facing. Since the funding announcements came after many commitments had already been made, it appears that severe cuts in support staff services are imminent.
An information rally, sponsored by OCASC, will take place at the Board office at 133 Greenbank Road on Monday, August 28, 2006 at 5:00 pm. The final budget meeting will take place at 6:30 pm, with a board meeting to approve budget directly afterwards.
Please Note: The start time has been changed to 5:00 to co-incide with the change in start time for the budget meeting... [more]
Posted by Richard Deadman @ 07:46 AM EST [Link]
Thursday, August 24, 2006
The Toronto Star is reporting that the provincial government has assigned a Fact-Finder to review the Toronto School Board's budget proposal that will see the closure of 10 schools and 80 school swimming pools, the elimination of 600 EAs and many other cuts. This has some parallels to the difficult decisions facing the OCDSB as it tries to balance its budget while dealing with French, ESL, Special Ed. and Teacher Salarary costs that are not fully covered by the province's funding formulas.
Posted by Richard Deadman @ 11:04 AM EST [Link]