Report hits native ed spending ,

pening. They need more ser-

perintendent, why the dis-

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The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, September 23, 1998 - A7

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More targeted money goes to administration here than to helping the children re.
- By ALEX HAMILTON derspent $657,000.. For the vices to help them,” trict created another board ated another board. at ‘ oy) Chi
THE SCHOOL DISTRICT 1996-97 school year, the McRae is especially to decide how Hazelton’s ‘‘When things started to & a efe
dpends more targeted native district underspent peeved since the native alive cducation dollars get bumpy (between the NL mapa
¢ducation money on admin- $300,000, And last school board (Gitksan- would be spent, Gitksan Wet’Suwet’En Ed- EN PERSON ap
istration than direct services year, the amount underspent Wet’suwet'en | Education © McRae said the allocation cation Society and the With He Musto Frionds Jim Parker* Lance Auderson :
to native students, a damn- was $130,000, Socicty), which was in of money can’t be spent board) — the district walked x a a
ing report concludes, “We want more money charge of allocating 1.31 without the involvement and away from the table. Now [Bf @S colt special pratt Wiese 8
~ The 200-page Sandy Peel spent on First Nations chil- program dollars in Hazelton consent of aboriginal we'd like to get back to the = fs DUPLEY Q %
teport, a study commis- dren to get. them through since Dec, 1994, was re- people. And this budget table.’ He Che Dragon” Kees:
Sioned by the education school,’’ said Frances Ben- placed this year with anoth- wasn't endorsed by the ‘I need to determine what ei A a
ministry, states the board net, of the Sw’Sit’ Aatk Edu- er board called the Gitksan chiefs since none of them is happening,”’ acting super- I :
-lsed-~ “the = maximum ~ cation: Society here. ‘Half Education Advisory Board, . were contacted: intendent Sharon" Beedle 8 Saturday, October 10 .
-». fmount: allowable for ad- © of: them can’t read. Let's ° Atd recent district educa- | She said when the district said, adding the departure of p 1pm & 3 am at the REM Lec Theatre ;
thinistration and applied give hem every opportunity tion meeting, McRae asked couldn’t get what it wanted senior administrators has — (( Reserved Tickets $10.50
1.31 funding (targeted na- to succeed. That’s not hap- Sharon Beedle, acting su- from her commillee, it cre- left an information gap. bi On Sale Now At Sight & Sound [ :
tive education dollars) to (23 ti

other areas that could, argu-
able, be funded out of core
i funding.’? The result is the
i “percentage of targeted
funds actually being
directed toward children is
i: considerably less than else-
: Where,”
-It also describes the rela-
tionship between senior
board: officials and band
taembers as being very
poor. States the report:
: “There is evidence to sug-
gest ihat senior board offi-
cials have a reluctance to
éngage in dialogue with the
native bands on matters of
concem in education. The
result is that a serious atmo-
sphere of mistrust has been
Built up between the bands
and the school district that
will be difficult to over-
come.”’
-The study was spear-
headed Margery McRae, ed-
ication adviser for the
Gitksan Government Com-
mission, after she and vari-
ous other band representa-
lives met with ministry offi-
dials Feb, 24 to discuss the
poor academic achievement
rates of native students here.
The graduation tate for na-
tive students in 1996 was
oaly 32 per cent.
“Unhappy with the school
district's native education
; spending habits, McRae
asked ministry officials to
Teview the services offered
to aboriginal students by
School District 82.
Many local Terrace,
Kitimat and Hazelton bands
f were angry with the way
special native education
money (1.31 program funds)
has been allocated for First
Nations students in the arca.
“The school board isn’t
Using the money properly,’
McRae said. ‘‘They’re not
putting enough money into
the classroom. We need the
Support services to enhance
... dearning to increase.academ-

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unity support and minis-
terial permission.

«The amount of money
divided between the four
distinct regions within the
district (Terrace, Hazelton,
Stewart and Kilimat) is
‘determined by the number
of native students in each
area — each native student
is allocated $900.

- The report states that al-
most all the bands in Ter-
race, Kitimat, Hazelton and
Stewart that were contacted
for the study, believe School
District 82 is using too
much of the targeted 1.31
funds for administration and
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