Facing rising costs and growing enrolment, the Calgary Catholic School District Board of Trustees will use $21.5 million of district reserves to cover a shortfall in funding.
“This level of funding provided by the province falls substantially short of meeting the needs of our students,” board chair Shannon Cook told reporters.
“Our utilities are up more than 50 per cent, everything’s up, desk costs are up, software costs up, Wi-Fi costs are up. All those things you need to have in a classroom, they’re all up, so we haven’t had an increase to deal with that.”CCSD officials noted funding from Alberta Education rose by $20.5 million over 2023-2024, but due to the funding model used by the province, 1,562 students will be left unfunded in September.
Medeana Moussa, Support our Students executive director, says schools across the province are being asked to do more with less funding.“We’re running out of physical space, we’re running out of enough teachers because we’ve got classrooms that are over 40 kids. We are running out of technology access.‘God’s influencer’: Pope clears way for the first-ever millennial saint
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