Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, it appears that this piece of kind of the GNWT funding or funding requirements are placing some unnecessary strain on the operational budget of some of our school boards, especially with changes that have happened in the last few years, or changes that can happen from year to year.
So while a point-in-time count is done on September 30th, the policy that guides that states that children must be present for 50 percent or more of the month. In other jurisdictions, the point-in-time count does not stipulate attendance and looks only at student enrolment on September 30th.
Is the Minister willing to remove the 50 percent attendance stipulation from the policy? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.