Regina schools considering lunchroom supervision fees, further cuts to address budgetary shortfalls
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The Regina Board of Education is considering lunchroom supervision fees and curtailed spending to address what it feels is a government funding shortfall for schools.
The Regina Board of Education is considering lunchroom supervision fees and curtailed spending to address what it feels is a government funding shortfall for schools.
Those possibilities were contained in a leaked memo obtained by the Saskatchewan NDP.
“And it says that cuts to programs and new fees for parents are all on the table,” NDP MLA Aleana Young said.
According to the letter from Regina Public Schools’ director of education, Regina Public Schools is examining fees currently charged for noon-hour supervision, reducing spending on technology, learning resources and facility projects, minimizing transportation costs, reducing division office staffing and school instructional positions.
The provincial government has said more than once that additional funding is on the way.
“The premier has committed that we are going to be working with school divisions to provide in-year money for enrolment again and so we are going to be working very hard over the coming weeks to determine what that amount will be,” education minister Dustin Duncan said.
School fees are not new. A few years ago Regina resident Patricia Elliot was part of a parent’s group that fought to have fees eliminated.