Manitoba schools get funding boost, new school coming to Transcona

The Manitoba authorities is putting astir $55 cardinal towards gathering a caller schoolhouse successful the Transcona area.

Experts accidental this is simply a much-needed project, and operation is expected to commencement successful 2026.

“We’ve been experiencing unprecedented maturation implicit the past while,” Colleen Carswell, the seat for the committee of trustees astatine the River East Transcona School Division, says. “We are the largest, fastest-growing part successful the province. So, this is bully quality for our families, students and staff.”

The state announced a 3.4-per cent summation successful operating backing for schools crossed Manitoba for the adjacent schoolhouse year, the largest summation successful 7 years

“We cognize that there’s much enactment to do,” Manitoba Education Minister Tracy Schmidt said. “We volition beryllium reconstituting the stakeholder advisory radical connected schoolhouse to marque definite that we get immoderate changes that are needed close going into the future”

School backing includes the following:

• $53.1 cardinal successful operating costs for nationalist schools
• $30 cardinal for nutrition programming, successful summation to the national government’s committedness of $6.7 million, for a full of $36.7 successful nutrition backing for 2025-26;
• $6 cardinal for superior support, which includes main and involvement costs related to gathering schools;
• $7.8 cardinal to autarkic schools arsenic per their backing agreement
• An further 5 schools participating successful the Community Schools Program; and reconstituting the stakeholder advisory committee connected schoolhouse funding.

“This announcement volition person a affirmative interaction due to the fact that 1 of the things that MTS has agelong advocated for is an acquisition backing summation that meets oregon exceeds inflation,” Nathan Martindale, Manitoba Teachers Society president said. “So this 3.4-per cent summation is supra the complaint of ostentation from past year.”

The summation per part volition alteration from 1 to 9.8 per cent.

While the summation is appreciated, experts accidental Manitoba needs much schools.

Sandy Nemeth, Manitoba School Boards Association president and Louis Riel School Division trustee talked astir her schoolhouse division.

“We expect important maturation some successful English and French immersion, to the grade that we person already made authorities alert that we are going to beryllium requesting respective caller schools,”  she added.

“The committee present needs to beryllium down and person a speech astir what the priorities are and however we are going to trade a fund for 25-26.”