The school board will take other steps to make up the $3.8-million shortfall, including a 10 per cent across-the-board cut to all departments
Middle-school music and elementary-strings programming in the Greater Victoria School District will not be cut, after trustees voted for a number of other measures to cover a $3.8-million shortfall.
In addition, some extra money was raised through the district’s tuition-fee increase for international students.The trustees’ professional-development fund was also reduced at the suggestion of trustee and board vice-chair Karin Kwan, while the school district will end its membership in the B.C. School Trustees Association to save $61,000, an idea put forward by trustee Derek Gagnon.
While the board was still short $18,000 to fully cover the middle-school program, trustees unanimously backed Kwan’s motion to use money from the district’s contingency fund for that purpose, as well. In the end, however, they gave unanimous support to Kwan’s motion to keep the program in schools where it is currently offered, with a pilot project to run in six elementary schools using teachers’ designated preparation time for music classes.
Kwan said she will bring further information on the pilot to the next regular board meeting this month, including ways to evaluate it. “We want a large enough group where we can pilot this and see how it works,” she said.
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