Thank you, Madam Chairperson. Is the Minister or the department considering doing away with this program in light that you made the statement that the funds are already going to the Divisional Board of Education and they should be handling and maintaining their funding within budgetary items, yet we have a special category here for an interest group which is over and above those which are already being funded, so we are basically funding two groups at this time and I do not think we are fair to all the students in the Northwest Territories who may not have access to this program? On the one hand we are short of funding in our education system but yet you are still funding a so-called unique program, yet we have unique problems in all our other schools. What is so unique about this program which is costing us some $326,000 which could be better spent in the overall budget of all the divisional boards?
David Krutko on Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on May 11th, 1999. 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 10th, 1999
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