Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I would like to get right to some specific questions concerning education and I mentioned some of them yesterday in my opening address. Mr. Chairman, the Minister in this House, as before, mentioned the problems with the Grade 10 mathematics curriculum as an example of the problems that we are seeing throughout the Northwest Territories. Mr. Chairman, in the Grade 10 math curriculum in the Baffin, there are 361 Grade 10 students in the Baffin and approximately 24 Grade 10 math teachers. The text books are $44 each; 44 times 361 equals $15,884. Calculators, which are prerequisites for the course, are $115 times 361 which is $41,515. The basic math manipulative is $43 a student, Mr. Chairman, which is $15,523. The teacher's texts are $107 each which is $2,568 for the 24 teachers. Teacher support materials are over $5,000. In total, actual cost spent by the Baffin Divisional Board of Education was $80,526. The ECE contribution was $19,000. My question, Mr. Chairman, for the Minister and his staff, concerns the allocations of funds to implement the new math curriculum and how we expect the divisional board of education to be able to deliver this new curriculum implementation with a shoestring budget? Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Edward Picco on Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on May 26th, 1998. See this statement in context.
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
May 25th, 1998
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Edward Picco Iqaluit
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