School departments of the North Shore relieved

School centers (CSS) of the North Shore can breathe. While they were preparing to reduce services due to major compressions, the announcement of an addition of $ 540 million in the school system reassures their management for next year.

This morning is a nice news. […] We receive it with a great reliefrejoices the director general of CSS Iron, Marc-André Masse.

There were posts that had not been filled, which had been decided to put on the ice for the next yearhe notes. He specifies that the CSS Iron will now be able to try to hire psychoeducators, speech therapists and technicians in special education, in particular.

The Director General at the Institute of Education of Sept-Îles (IESI), Mathieu Brien, adds that it is a Excellent news In the short term, but that the budgets will remain tight despite everything.

Yo-yo

Earlier in June, the Ministry of Education demanded that the province’s public and private schools reduce their expenses by $ 570 million. Côte-Nord’s school service centers feared that the requested cuts will affect students’ services.

Faced with the threat of budgetary restrictions, theISEI had to adapt quickly. We had to do a few cups […] and tighten budgets at the end of the school yearexplains Mathieu Brien. Very in the racehe specifies.

We lost a month to break our heads.

The situation was the same at CSS You are: It was a lot of head breach to know where we were going to get our moneynote Marc-André Masse. The school service center had to find a way to save nearly two million dollars in order to respond to requests from the Ministry of Education.

However, despite the $ 540 million reinjected into the school system, the management of CSS iron claims that Other challenges persist. You should know that the last two years, we were going to draw on our surplus accumulated to offer better servicesindicates Marc-André Masse.

For his part, the director of theISEI Do not know if, for this private school of the North Shore, the amount invested by the provincial government will be similar to the amount cut in the past month. It’s a bit of a shame to play yo-yo like thathe concludes.

With Elia Rousseau information