It’s a tough time for most school divisions in Manitoba as they finalize their upcoming school year budgets. Each school division is struggling to do more with less funding and Kelsey School Division is no different. Some tough decisions had to be made to minimize the amount of cutbacks that could have occurred.
Kelsey School Division put a great emphasis in this year’s budget on ensuring that staffing levels were maintained.
“Our main focus was to prevent losing any staff through budget cuts,” said Kelsey School Division Chair Cheryl Sinclair. “We wanted to hold staffing levels to where they are and that was one of our main questions asked by the public.