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economist suntribune news thursday dec 12 2002 board chairs like money for special education from page 1 mined amount to cover cur rent contract negotiations with teaching and support staff an immediate infusion of 130 million for special education as well as 20 mil lion for student transporta tion costs 50 million more for staffing at small schools in northern rural and french- language boards and single- school communities that school boards be allowed to spend five per cent of their foundation grants for their own local pri orities and that the ministry of education develop mecha nisms for annual reviews of the funding formula and a more comprehensive overall review every five years i thought it was a very good report said elizabeth crowe chairperson of the york catholic district school board one of hundreds who made presentations before the commission during its sixcity tour in september in particular were very pleased that he recommends some immediate action on the areas that we have high lighted such as the special education funding we really do hope the government acts on that as quickly as possible bill crothers chairperson of the york region district school board said mr rozanskis report shows many boards dont have a problem with the funding formula itself just the fact it hasnt kept pace with the cost of living that was the bulk of his recommendations that the government take the funding formula they developed and increase all the cost numbers to reflect the cost of living that has occurred since then he said thats twothirds to threequarters of the money hes recommending and thats what many of us have been saying all along he was also pleased the report recognized the need for more money for special education and contract negotiations with the boards teachers whose contracts expired in august others while glad the report recognizes the need for more money are more hesitant to fully embrace it its sort of good news bad news as far as im con cerned said wendy van straten president of the york region chapter of the elementary teachers federation of ontario well wait to see how much the government actually acts on i think its a good thing to increase the benchmarks but thats not really an infu sion its basically keeping up with the consumer price index which to me is some thing that should have been done all along while shes pleased the report mentions the need for more esl funding she noted it doesnt address all of the problems her teachers face such as the growing disparity in perpupil funding between the elementary and secondary schools sean oconnor a newmarket teacher and founding member of the york education alliance was also only somewhat pleased with the report its certainly encouraging that the report acknowledges the fact the funding formula is deficient in a number of areas especially in the area of spe cialeducation services he said any money put into that area would be welcome still he figures the amount of money the report 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