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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Times Advocate, 2004-10-20, Page 20HUNON TRACTOR 20 Exeter Times—Advocate Wednesday, October 20, 2004 KylenVanOsch guards the ball against a pair ofVikings for the South Huron Panthers senior girls Oct. 13 in Exeter.The Panthers crushed theVikings 48-7. (photo/PatBolen) Details flow on Good Schools Open grant By Stew Slater SPECIAL TO THE T -A SEAFORTH — The even- tual injection of approxi- mately $710,000 of one- time government money into the current year's Avon Maitland District School Board budget "cer- tainly goes some way to helping (the board) recap- ture the amount" it already spent to ensure each school had a full-time principal and secretary. Still, according to busi- ness superintendent Janet Baird -Jackson, it means the board won't be able to re -allocate about $414,000 it took away from other 2004-05 expenditures to provide those guarantees. On Sept. 22, the ruling Liberals provided esti- mates to each school board, detailing how $31 million for the rural school portion of the so-called "Good Schools Open" ini- tiative would be distrib- uted. In short, Education Ministry officials expanded upon the previous govern- ment's definition of "rural," declared each school should have a prin- cipal and secretary, and based its allocation formu- la on 93 per cent of the salary earned by such employees under existing benchmarks. Then on Sept. 27, min- istry officials stated the formula would be used only to decide how much new funding each school generated; school boards can then decide how and where to spend the funds, based on what are expect- ed to be a broadly -ranging set of yet -to -be -released parameters. Baird -Jackson, speaking to trustees at a meeting Oct. 12, called the $31 - million initiative "a patch on a patch (for addressing rural education woes): the Good Schools Open on top of the Rural Education Strategy." She said one reason why the Avon Maitland budget will still show a shortfall in principal/secretary fund- ing, if the ministry esti- mates hold true once the final calculations are made early next year, is that the salary bench- marks used by the gov- ernment are five years old. Trustees also questioned the preliminary calcula- tions provided during the Oct. 12 meeting; one edu- cation ministry document indicated Seaforth Public School remains a sec- ondary school (which ceased to be the case in 2002). Interviewed after the meeting, Baird -Jackson stressed it's not yet known how broadly -ranging the parameters will be for spending the Good Schools Open money, for boards which have already pro- vided full-time principals and secretaries in every school. She noted previous bud- getary decisions have fre- quently taken money away from transportation. However, both she and education director Geoff Williams expressed confi- dence the soon -to -be - revamped rural education strategy will take into account the struggle of rural boards to finance such things as transporta- tion. 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