Reassurance from the Anglophone East School District Superintendent, there will be no layoffs.
School districts are faced with $43 million in cost-reduction pressures from the provincial government.
Randolph MacLEAN says they’ll find savings through attrition, but no jobs will be lost.
“There is more money being allocated to education than there was last year. In order to maintain the same levels of resourcing in our system, it would have been $248 million, but we received $241 million, so we have to find some savings. We are doing that work. No single employee group will take the brunt. We will use a scalpel to approach this, not a hatchet, as we go line by line, group by group, area by area.”
He says there are 30 teachers retiring, more than 100 ‘D’ and more than 60 ‘C’ teaching contracts coming to an end in June.
MacLEAN told members of the District Education Council that there will be shifts, but they will do everything in their power to minimize those.
“Other districts are approaching this differently, both English and French sectors,” MacLEAN explained.
He also reassured that the Anglophone East School District will not be getting rid of librarians as other districts have reportedly done.
