WINNIPEG – Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger promises his NDP government will cap kindergarten to Grade 3 class sizes at 20 and pay for the new teachers and classrooms needed to make that work.
It would cost about $20 million a year for the extra teachers and $85 million over five years to create enough classrooms.
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He made the announcement at the headquarters of the Manitoba Teachers Society, and teachers’ union president Paul Olson praised it as a game-changer for children.
It would add about 240 teachers to the 15,000 now working in Manitoba.
But the premier continues to reject a request from a coalition pushing all parties to scrap property taxes as a way of funding education.
He says most jurisdictions rely on property taxes to some extent.
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