Sunday, July 3, 2011

Calgary Public schools face 324 Job Cuts

The interesting part of this story is the revelation that the Calgary school board spends a significantly higher percentage of the school board budget on the top officials and school board administrators and less on the actual teachers who teach the students.

A Calgary Herald analysis found that the Calgary school board could save $10.5 million if it spent as little on administration as the most frugal of its Alberta counterparts.

The huge rent for the fancy new Calgary School board building is just one of the problems that the Calgary school board created for itself.

Read more about the Calgary Herald story: http://www.calgaryherald.com/Public+schools+face+cuts/4638763/story.html

The Calgary School board plans to continue support for ESL programming for students born outside of Canada.


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