Regina Public Schools considers spending cuts to maintain service level
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- 04 May 2023
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Regina Public Schools is looking to save money as the division expects to receive less funding than it needs to maintain its current services, according to a letter to all staff Monday.
The school division, which serves more than 24,500 students attending several dozen schools, received an increase to operational funding of one per cent — or $2.5 million — for the next school year, says the letter, a copy of which was obtained by CBC News.
The division, however, needed a three-per cent increase — or $7.5 million — to maintain a "status quo budget" that offers the same services without "significant enhancements or reductions," the letter says.
"That will require us to take measures … that will have impacts across the school division, as well as, potentially, to families," said Darren Boldt, Regina Public Schools' director of education, who sent the staff letter.
The potential measures listed in the letter include charges to parents for lunch-time supervision; reducing spending on technology, learning resources and facility projects; and reducing instructional positions in schools.
"We could see an increase in the pupil-to-teacher ratio," Boldt said. "It would come across as a small percentage, but it will be felt in the schools."
No continuing or permanent teachers would be laid off, Boldt explained. The division would resort to not filling vacancies created by resignations and retirements. Read More…
