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Home My WebLink AboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1998-04-22, Page 9711 e N� good JILedu by Tr 4 W411°11564Avon Maitland Almost one month alter the province .announced its ' rw new education ..1...#70tet (et !� model, tool, board admin. atetually redue ..classroom istrators art* stir having spending in the AM.DSR trouble tindios :mach good by one-half of one percent news. ' and increase "non-elass- I'n. a presentation to the . room spending by a simi- A.v+nn Maitland Distrito tar nominal: amount," School Board (AMVIDSU) Carrell stated about the last Tuesday, Director• of t'99tii99 school Education Peal Carroll Following carrot'', noted his disappointment remarks, lvlarklevitz, who over the ways the numbm's • is loading the work teain. are adding up. evaluatingthe impact or "I am, at thisthaw, dis- the funding khangesi took Cauraged. at what is: trustors. through :the unfcl:ding as Marilyn board's preliminary findM Marklevitz .(superinten». ings. • •._ - . dent of business) and' her The superintendent of team do their work," business noted that so far,. Carroll.said, ";hie are still the team has only been struggling to see if we will able to verify have more money or .less $102,669,41:4 out of the money than we had in the $127,082,609 the ministry •(preYinus)'boatci ." has: profiled ' for the Carroll, added. that.. A.tvWS0 for the 1998/99 despite having. the num- school yew', bers since the end of She noted that as more March, the job of deer- information is provided by .phering the province's the ministry, they ;hope to. new formula is far from come muchcloser to the over. government's a numbers, "Itis an, extremely: (lift adding it would be danger. fteul.t t4,4k,i" .htrt . said:; ous to set a budget for adding that '.they _are still $127 million unless the• waiting for the ministry of board was slice they would' education to supply the be receiving all, of this rest of the •funding infor- money, • "We need to clear those However,.. Carroll noted: things up, Marklevitz, that what figures have said, been provitted.seem. to • nr Cation. Questions also remain, contradict government MMiarklevitz continued" in elaims: that the new model ' liow the breakdown of would increase. elassrOoln individual grants will spendingaCross the effect the board, $he noted, province. that there still appears to, "A report provided by be a shortfall over the Deputy Minister for $392,000 in the trans - Directors of Education_ poriatian grant, as well as illustrates that the total: more shortages estimated„ estimated 104).0°1 wi1.l in the pupil aecomirtoda. Gor��uc�c�n eos�s *from page 0, costs, for the board will be has been hit .Waith cost a•pr'obletn, increases due to eonstruc- "It's grossly unfair to tion price hires since the . be stuck .With, that format. moratoriu,m,.,I3ut Lewis; . when we can't•raise• the. readily admits debenturing localshare, he said, Gall Far ri*h .was the; rePipiernI °of the Ken:`. Farrlah trophy for hockey skills and academie achievement' by a prate 10 Bantam. Na guet last Friday night, (Livingston photo)'. education. • rope ed hip al Ards at the annual hockey. batt u�' of Board tion grant, "Then: is no new infor- mation: -1t• appears to be what was there a couple of weeks agcy"" Marklevitz.. said,; MarkIevitz noted that ther grants Causing:`°con- .Lvn. is the early learning and the junior kinder- ►,arten OK) funding. She • said- that the newly announced early learning grant, which is being differed to boards who don't choose to implement -11C, isiupposed;:to be rev- enue neutral with the IIK, grant, Therefore, She Q011 - tinkled, no (natter which program. the. board Chooses to implement, they weuld get the same amount of funding. However, 1Vlarklevitz said early calculations 'show the board receiving over $750,000 more. for the. early learning gran `"These two progra s. are intended to be'rev tae neutral. However, as can be seen,. a sign ficants nil feronce arises, 'the fund- ing report stated. "Follow- up queries have been initi- ated with the Ministry of Education and ,Training: to attempt to resolve this die-& erepancy,'" I larklevitz added .that the ;A14IDSS's lower than provincial average enrollment inight be' the reason for the difference in funding., Moving: on to, the per pupil, grants, Marklevitz said that the grand'total per elementary student ing the focinula, an "arbi trary tondo,." ")it's in nobody's inter- est to • let. aur buildings deteriorate in the long , terra, so- what garne are they .playing; ere.Lwis said. ""I don't understand, otheir, than . • they're responding to their tight funding." A Mnaintenance allowance of 64 cents a square foot for buildings up tt 2Q years old and 96 cents for older buildings: is. "below 'the expert' panel's. recommendations and clearly inadequate"", Lewin said, "We need $2 a.sgtiare toot: It'isri't there," Lewis said. "The forme.r'Bruce and Grey beaCds are being penalized for b, .frig good corpot<Itc hoar.i , not just in building (budgets) but in transportation: and right" down the .line. It really barns me,",said trustee, RuthHirtenfeld. She said the board should <make its" concerns, known to local MI'I's and the minister of • Lueknow Sentinel, ednesday, PO 22¢ 1998"—.Page 9 , on fundLing adds up to $4,778, and per secondary school pupil equals $5,4.16. ".ir .a student walks through the door. that is how much they are worth," she noted. Several of the trustees noted their disappointment in these monitors, stating teat they failed to see the funding equity the govern- ment had promised.Abby Armstrong, chair of the board, said. that as far as she, knew, boards in. ,Toronto • were still spend- ing close to. $9,,000 per student, while the AMMO was almost $4,000 lower than that, "The bottom, line is ,that we are still spending close to .half fess than the Larger boards,' Armstrong stated,.. Trustee Atje Tuyten agreed, adding that the government spent months promising• rural board equitable• funding for all students across, the provinee.. "I'm not seeing it here tonight,(" she said "I guess we `kind. of hoped, but we should have known, bet- ter." • Carroll; added that there has been a "dramatic shift" in the way the AMDSa: is being penal ized, lie "noted that instead of::being punished for low 'spending, they ate losing ftmdins because`they.are small board. ` . Both Carroll. .and. Marklevitz promised trustees more information on the funding effects as soon as it becomes avail•• tahyle. 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