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96 full-time teaching positions lost
in District 44 budget for next year

@ 10 full-time equivalent

THE NORTH Vancouver District 44 School Board an-
nounced Tuesday a $10 million cut in its budget for the

1992-93 school year.

The announced cuts in the
$93,135,989 budget included 96
full-time teaching positions and
the district’s highly regarded
elementary band and strings pro-
gram and the popular outdoor
school program.

District 44 superintendent Robin
Brayne told the standing-room-
only board meeting that ‘‘we are,
as a district, absolutely nowhere
near maintaining the 1992-93
programs and services at the

By A.P. McCredie
Contributing Writer

1991-92 level."

The superintendent «Iso outlin-
ed the number of positions elimi-
nated by the new budget:

@ 96 full-time teaching positions
— of which 33% result from the
elimination of programs;

@ seven Distzict 44 administration
positions;

posi-
tions in administration time in
elementary and secondary schools
@ and 26 full-time equivalent
support staff.

Brayne said the numbers repre-
sented positions that have been
eliminated, not actual layoffs.

The impact will be softened, he
said, by retirements and other
forms of attrition.

Trustees voted to add an ap-
pendix to the budget when sub-
mitting it to the Ministry of
Education that not only detailed
the numbers behind the program
cuts, but also summarized the im-

pact of the loss of the programs
on the students, the community,
and all citizens of North Van-
couver.

West Vancouver-Capilano
MLA Jeremy Dalton told the
board that he would present the
facts and figures of District 44’s
1992-93 school budget to the pro-
vincial tegislature following the
Easter recess.

District 44 program cuts
clude: .
@® community school staffing;
@ the outdoor school program;
@ the elementary band and str-
ings program;

@ consultant services;

@ French as a second language
(kindergarten-Grade 5);

@ summer curriculum writing;

@ dental service;

@ elementary and secondary

school education leadership;

@ secondary school athletics
coordination;

® outside contracted services for
repair and maintenance;

@ school district contribution to
the costs of continuing education;
@ plant and site improvernent;

@ the board grant to the Artists
For Kids Fund;

@® new equipment
safety-related items).
District 44 program reductions:

@ special education services;

@ program implementation;

@ replacement equipment;

@ library acquisitions;

@ administrative costs;

@ school-based administrative
time;

@ field trip transportation;

@ science resource centre;

@ English as a second language
planning funds;

@ seminar and conference grants.

(except for