Calgary's public school board plans to cut another 324 full-time jobs by the fall in order to balance its budget.
The cuts – meant to help cover a $61.7 million budget shortfall for the 2011-2012 year – are on top of the 172 support staff position cuts announced last month.
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This is typical of what we see happening in our Province - Cut essential people programs and services because of deficits and debts created by a Conservative Government that sells our bitumen for 4% of it selling price ($4.40 for a barrel that sells for $110) and gives billion dollar incentives to gas drilling companies when we have a glut of natural gas and multi billions in infrastructure subsidies to foreign oil companies to build pipelines to American refineries that take jobs and taxes and the petro chemical industry out of our Province. It makes sense only to our Provincial Tories and we hear the Wildrose Alliance. They simply have no vision for the future of our Province..
Harper-nomics at work destroying our future. Then again we won't need many educated people for the McJobs that are currently being created.
Canada in a few years will consist of an elite rich ruling class, and a huge poor class of under-educated workers that are virtual slaves to the service industry jobs that they subsist by.
Has conservatism belittled itself to a level of balancing the books at the expense of those who elected them? The PC party should rename itself the Unemployment Party..
Sorry Teachers, its more important we have money to send troops to Afghanistan & all those other holes.
Wake up people. Soon the only educated people will be in places like Africa & Afghanistan. And we'll have paid for it..
Yup, cut admin to the bone. Lots of Canadian institutions have become far too top heavy, and no one seems to challenge this. What's the point of having service management if you have no service to offer?.
This is so infuriating... Other than writing letters to your MP and school trustee (which I have done and all it got me was membership to some stupid mailing list of 'concerned citizens'); what else can you do? Voting against the conservatives is futile in Alberta...
there are already 30 kids in my sons classroom. How many will he have next year? A very sad state of affairs when one of the "have" provinces cannot afford to properly educate our children. guess their bellies will be full (with food provided by their parents high paying jobs) while their minds will not be... what will happen next generation?.
My ... isn't THIS the proof of the value of Conservatism ... play cheap for years and years, refuse to tax yourself and, PRESTO! Your future for your children is at risk.
Who'd'a thunk it? This is the culmination of thoughtless spending by the Conservative government, inpower for years and bloody years in Alberta. Heaven help us all if the same small mindset, lack of foresight and poverty of caring gets into power in Ottawa with a Harper Conservative majority. This is the same sort of genius that wants power over the whole country. Calgarians, you're just the sad belle-weather system. The damage to come is far, FAR greater.
This mess kind of proves the old adage, eh? ... " You get what you pay for".
Stelmach, you're a failure..