Thank you, Mr. Chairman. In the area of schools, we do have a small capital budget in which we allocate for repairs and upgrades for schools in small communities. I believe that's the area, if the Member is speaking about the capital program, that we are in. As well, we are introducing and we already have introduced a school improvement initiative whereby we have identified for each DEC, DEA, approximately $20,000 to work on a program to take one school and improve their particular literacy or numeracy or language usage or science. We have eight schools at the moment that are all small schools and we want to have them run these particular pilot programs. If they can improve their literacy, their reading capability and their numeracy and so forth, if that works, it's about a half a year program, so it will last until the spring. We want to take and analyze the successes of that, the failures of that and expand that to other small schools. It's very important for us to concentrate on the small schools outside of the big centres.
Jake Ootes on General Comments
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General Comments
Item 20: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
February 24th, 2003
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