unding a First Rate

Education System

| Increasing Education Funding

. Over the next three years, funding for B.C’s Kinder- garten to Grade 12 education system will increase by. $143 million to, $5 billion.

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2005/06 e Over the next three years, total education funding, including post-secondary spending, will rise by.

$173 million to $7.11 billion. |

* Over the last two years, school districts received —

$92.8 million in new, one-time funding to address

cost pressures.

e This year, school boards received $117 million more than in 2000/2001. me

Spending More per Student

eit is projected that since 2001/2002 per pupil funding will have increased by $178 this year

and by $405 in three years.

¢ Per pupil funding is projected to rise from $6,328

in 2001/2002 to $6,733 in 2005/2006.

* There are 15,431 fewer students attending school ; today than in 1998. oo

* It is estimated there will be 9,283 fewer students

in BC. schools by 2006 than there are today. = ;

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~ Investing in New Schools |

and Improvements

Over the next three years, the B.C. government .

will invest $619 million in new funding to:

* build 7 new schools and purchase 91 new buses. * upgrade or expand 38 schools.

*° ensure 29 schools are seismically upgraded. -

_ For more information on changes to B.C’s education system, visit www.bced.gov.bc.ca.

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