Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Three options proposed for CBE busing fees

(From the Calgary Herald website)

Administrators for the Calgary Board of Education are recommending “partial cost recovery,” which could equal nine more teaching positions slashed to help cover an $8.8-million transportation shortfall.

Administration released on Monday three possible scenarios which follow a rejected proposal on May 17 that would have raised school busing fees 60 per cent.

That proposal would have meant an increase to $670 maximum per family to send kids to school on the yellow busses.

Read the full story here.

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