Alfred Moses

I believe the amount for inclusive schooling is a reasonable amount when we allocate it to the schools. With the attendance issue as well, and I want to increase graduation rates just as much as the Member does. One thing that we are doing that I did mention in the opening comments was the Pathways to Graduation. That's something unique and something different through our Education Renewal and Innovation Action Plan. Hopefully, we'll see some great results coming out of that pathways program. Thank you.

Yes, $3.523 million to the language communities. We also fund the Aboriginal language and culture instructors, and some funding going to teaching and learning centres as well.

Yes, that's correct; dollar for dollar.

Thank you. Any hiring that we do, we make sure we go through the correct processes. I would say with our department too, we also utilize the regional recruitment program very well. People that we recognize that can move up into more senior positions get the training dollars to get into those direct appointments, and affirmative action is always looked at when we do our hiring. I don't have the full numbers now, but I know what's come by my desk. We have seen a lot of our Aboriginal Indigenous employees getting into higher positions through that regional recruitment program, very successful...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yes. As we were going through Right from the Start Action Plan and the way we, as I made a statement this morning, in terms of how we were going to be funding daycares and day homes, we did have to do short-term reorganization of how we fund certain areas. Also, have a look at the Early Childhood Intervention Program, as well as how we were funding those as well. It all relates, but it is all going to the same type of focus and area. But as I mentioned, I did make a statement in the House this morning on how we fund daycares and day homes. That is going to be reflective...

Yes, we did go before committee on this one as well. We are doing the work that's needed to be done. There are some regulations that need to be fixed within the Income Assistance Regulations. We’re hoping to have a lot of this work completed when the federal government puts their plan in place, which is July 1st, and we're hoping to have some of the work ready in August.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Government of the Northwest Territories understands the importance of early childhood development and has been focused on developing and implementing programs and services for families with young children for the past few years. Healthy development during the first few years of life is crucial for lifelong success. I would like to share today some of the positive funding changes we are making in early childhood development. In 2014-2015, as a commitment of the Right from the Start Action Plan, the department of Education, Culture and Employment conducted a review of...

Yes. That's Yellowknife, Detah, Ndilo and I believe Lutselk’e.

With a lot of the work that we're doing within Education Renewal some of the work is pretty new so it's too early to really say right now. The way we're doing the funding framework for inclusive schooling is something new as well: the accountability framework on the side, making sure that the schools and the education authorities with the dollars that we give them are being utilized directly for special needs and the students that need that little extra help.

It’s too early to say right now but we are developing these monitoring and evaluation plans to ensure that we're providing adequate...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The PTR that we got for junior kindergarten will not affect PTR from other older grades and throughout the school system. Thank you.