The province’s newly-announced day care payment plan isn’t sitting well with District 57’s School Board.
Chair Sharel Warrington says the money saved should be directed entirely back to education and students.
“That’s the position that our board held from the very beginning, when we knew that there were savings that were being held back,” she says. “Our position has been very much that that’s where those dollars should go.”
Warrington says the government’s current plan is not exactly what the Board wants to see.
She’s also hopeful the province and BC Teachers’ Federation meet this week as planned, saying “We are very hopeful that they will be bargaining in earnest and that a resolution will be made before school begins in September.”
The Ministry of Finance clarified some points about their 40$-a-day program, saying the money won’t affect special needs payments for parents, but could affect a federal GST refund.
