Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It’s kind of unfortunate that we’re continuing with these junior kindergarten discussions and the implementation that occurred over the past year and this fall and the amount of money that is coming out of the district education authorities throughout the Northwest Territories.
Before I get into what we can do for the Beaufort- Delta Education Authority, I would just like to also acknowledge that the government, even though I’ll be asking questions today on how we can fix this and offset this and mitigate it, that the government has been pretty good in a couple of areas: the Children First Centre, the investment in the infrastructure and doing this one-time funding for e- learning and understanding that e-learning is a very important tool. However, when we do give funding to these education authorities to do the good programming, the innovative work that gets our students in the coastal communities, the isolated
communities, educated and then a year later we tell them that now they are going to have to find funding to run a program that was fast tracked.
I would like to ask the Minister in terms of all this, I have been asking for extra dollars for the Beaufort- Delta Education Authority and the formula funding framework. This is to the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment. Has the Minister come up with a funding formula to assist equal funding based on location for education authorities across the Northwest Territories? Is there a funding formula in place? Thank you.
