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A9 - Friday, May 4, 1984 - North Shore News

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Questioning school. board priorities

Dear Editor

Recently, Trustee Margie Goodman and | voted against approval of the school budget because we do not agree with the priorities set by our Board within the total amount provided from the provincial government bud- get.

Over the last ten years, North Vancouver enrolment in the schools has declined by 30% and the downward trend continues at this time but the majority bloc on the School Boayd is determined to main- tain the same level of senior administrators. The district superintendent has resigned to take another position and | believe that his is an oppor- tune time to reduce the senior administration at the Board office from four to three peo- ple. We currently have three assistant superintendents ear- ning over $75,000 including benefits and any of these in- dividuals could be assigned to Acting Superintendent at a cost saving of over $100,000 per year in tax dollars. Vic- toria School District, with a much larger student popula- tion has functioned well on this basis for the last year and Surrey with twice our school

population has only five senior administrators. . Another area where

$55,000 cost to the taxpayer could be reduced is in the ex- penses and fees paid by District #44 for participation in the B.C. School Trustees Association. There is no accountability by the B.C.S.T.A. for their opera- tions involving over 2'% milhon dollars of tax money throughout the province Provincial functions achieve very little in direct benefit to our students in) North Van- couver schools. Trustee time

and energy and the funds should be directed to local ac tivities for the benefit of education om North Van- COUNET

Pinally, another cxample can be found in the teacher Salary Schedule whereby out teachers ace patd on a bigher Seale than Wancouvet teachers who work with larger class sizes) Ht the Van

COUNEE Salary Scale was used

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