Sooke

This small district (8,200 students) faces a hefty $2 million deficit for the coming year, despite being one of the few BC districts already seeing growing enrolment.

In the News

VicNews.com: Fletcher spews neo-con bias

July 7, 2010

Paul Waterlander, Letter to the Editor

Tom Fletcher’s campaign to smear and denigrate B.C. public schools continues in his recent column (School’s out for teacher tantrums, Comment, June 23).

Fletcher’s refusal to admit that B.C.’s public schools are purposely underfunded by the B.C. Liberals proves how out of touch he is.  

Most citizens in B.C. do not believe the Minister of Education when she repeatedly drones on with the mantra of “highest funding ever.” Fletcher dismisses the Vancouver Board of Trustees for playing politics around funding, while conveniently  downplaying the fact that all of BC’s school boards are saying the same thing about underfunding as Vancouver.

In the district where I teach (Sooke School District), our enrolment is increasing, yet we are still having to make cuts. When you factor in the cost for all-day kindergarten and the negotiated salary increase, the Sooke district is losing $200 per student giving us a $1.8-million deficit. Read more

Goldstream Gazette: School district  projecting $2M deficit next year

February 23, 2010

By Erin Cardone – Goldstream News Gazette

Small cuts will be made this year to balance Sooke School District’s budget.

But this year’s slight shortfall is the tip of the iceberg, in terms of budgetary stresses for the district in the year to come. Read article

Contact local MLA

MLA John Horgan, Juan de Fuca (NDP)