Alberta school boards lose $1.4 million in grants for aboriginal students – Calgary Herald
March 28, 2015
Critics are questioning the Progressive Conservatives’ commitment to addressing the province’s troubling education achievement gap after the government slashed $1.4 million in grants to school boards for Alberta’s aboriginal students.
Alberta Education provides funding to school boards based on the number of students identified as First Nations, Metis and Inuit. The 2015-16 budget, released Thursday, sees the government cut 3.1 per cent from that non-teacher compensation grant.
“These are our most vulnerable kids,” said Mark Ramsankar, president of the Alberta Teachers’ Association. “You talk about our northern areas where you’ve got very high FNMI students, when you cut that budget it’s just going to exacerbate the problem that we already see.
