Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'm informed by the Baffin Divisional Board of Education that, due to changes in the way school community counsellors are funded, the divisional board anticipates that they may receive funding for only 12 of the 15 positions which are now in place.
1. There are five communities in the Baffin which will have more than one school next year. Will the Department of Education provide the Baffin Divisional
Board with funds to allow every community school to have a school counsellor?
2. Will school counsellor positions be built into the funding provided to divisional boards of education for the community grade extensions?
Forced Growth
There is a concern that if the school population grows by more than eight per cent, the divisional boards should be able to come back to the department and request supplementary funding for the portion that is above eight per cent.
3. Is there a supplementary reserve built into the 1996-97
budget which will be available to provide formula
funding increases to respond to the growth in the
student enrolments?
4. If the department now only considers supplementary funding after increases of more than eight per cent, does that mean we must wait two years before the Baffin can receive supplementary funding for the number of students we have?
McGill University Tuition Fees For TEP Students
Apparently, there's a dispute between the Department of Education, Arctic College and the Baffin Divisional Board about who pays for the fees which are required to be paid every year for the students in the community-based teacher program from Cape Dorset, Cambridge Bay and Coral Harbour. These fees will amount to $150,000 this year.
5. Is it true that the Department of Education is refusing
to pay for these fees for 1995-96?
Will the Department of Education be paying the McGill tuition fees for TEP students at the Nunavut Arctic College for the year 1996-97?
Thank you, Mr. Speaker.