Merci, Monsieur le President. I have two written questions today. For the first one, my questions are for the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment. The Minister provided Regular Members with the most recent version of its School Funding Framework that I tabled in the House yesterday. Can the Minister:
Identify the number of students enrolled in junior kindergarten alone, and in kindergarten to grade 12 cumulatively, and each school offering the Junior Kindergarten Program in 2016-2017;
Provide departmental projections of the above for 2017-2018; and
Identify differences between current K-12 funding and that same funding if it accounted for JK-12 in the items below, using estimated 2017-2018 enrolment figures and the formulas set out in the framework shared with Regular Members:
School Funding Framework – Administration – Administration O and M – item (i), Administration and School Services: (Administration Staffing for Assistant Superintendents, Administration Officers and Clerical Staff according to the tables);
School Funding Framework – Administration – Administration O and M – item (ii), District Education Authorities O and M: (Community Base of $15,000 + K-12 FTE x $86);
School Funding Framework – Territorial Schools – item (iii) – School Support Consultants: funded according to established table;
School Funding Framework – Territorial Schools – item (iv) – School Counselling: (K-12 community FTE x 0.0032);
School Funding Framework – Territorial Schools – item (v) – School Secretaries: (K-12 community FTE x 0.00028);
School Funding Framework – Territorial Schools – item (vi) – Custodians: (K12 community FTE x 0.0102);
School Funding Framework – Inclusive Schooling – item (iv) – Support Assistants: (Community K-12 FTE / 63);
School Funding Framework – Inclusive Schooling – item (vi) – Staff Development – Base funding of $2,000 per community + (community K-12 FTE x $50) x NCI;
School Funding Framework – Inclusive Schooling – item (vii) – Specialized Learning Materials / Assistive Technology: [Education Authority $10,000 base for minor projects + Base funding of $2,000 per community + (community K-12 FTE x $62)] x NCI;
School Funding Framework – Inclusive Schooling – item (x) – Healing and Counselling: Base funding of $10,000 per community + ($60 per K-12 FTE x NCI);
School Funding Framework – Aboriginal Languages & Cultural Programs – item (i) – Aboriginal Languages O and M: (Base funding of $100,000 per education authority) + ($9,000 x number of communities minus one) + (Aboriginal K-12 FTE x $125) x NCI; and
School Funding Framework – Aboriginal Language & Cultural Programs – item (ii): Education Assistants / Aboriginal Language specialists (EA/ALS): Aboriginal K-12 FTE per community, according to established table?
Merci, Monsieur le President.
Masi. Written questions. Member for Frame Lake.
