Extracurricular activities will be cut from all school divisions from Monday to Thursday next week. Six divisions are also going to be without lunch-hour supervision Monday.
Extracurricular activities will be cut from all school divisions from Monday, next week to Thursday. Six divisions are also going to be without lunch-hour supervision Monday. .Extracurricular activities will be cut from all Saskatchewan school divisions from Monday, March 25 to Thursday, March 28. This includes athletics, non-curricular arts, field trips, student travel, graduation preparations, school clubs and other activities.
Instead, the government offered the largest increase to the province’s education budget in history, announced on Wednesday. It announced $8.8 million to start planning nine new schools for the province and two renovations. The government also raised the total operating budget to $2.2 billion for the 2024-25 school year, an increase of 8.8 per cent over last year.
Education Minister Jeremy Cockrill says in a statement he’s disappointed by the union’s decision to continue targeting extracurricular activities. “Government made a significant compromise to get to a deal and then for the teacher’s federation to not even stay long enough at the bargaining table to hear that full offer being expressed, that’s disappointing,” Cockrill said after the budget announcement Wednesday.Teachers backed out of extracurriculars for two days this week, which caused the cancellation of Hoopla, the provincial high school basketball tournament.
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