Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 14, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba I 1iiir March 2001 education a teachers push for parental leave trustees fear boards will have to raise taxes or slash jobs and programs to pay for demand by Nick Martin trustees fear that paid parental leave for teachers could Force school boards throughout Mani Toba to Jack up already High school taxes or slash jobs and its a new multimillion Dollar expense for beleaguered school budgets an expense that the doer government shows no sign of arbitrators have already agreed with teachers in fort Garry and vital that they deserve the same Topping up of employment insurance for maternity leave benefits that Many other Public sector workers teachers in those divisions will now be paid 90 per cent of their regular salary for the first 17 weeks of maternity a similar arbitration decision involving Transcona Springfield teachers is teachers across Manitoba will not Only bargain this year for maternity Ben said Craig labour relations director for the Manitoba association of school but also ask that male teachers get paid paternity Manitoba teachers society president Jan Speelman says teachers deserve maternity benefits and without them school divisions wont be Able to attract Young women into the profession to replace a wave of retiring older teach Mast estimates that province wide maternity leave alone would have Cost school boards million last a per cent increase in local no trustees fight try to merge school boards school trustees in Southeastern Manitoba Are fighting attempts by the provincial government to Force school boards to a group of trustees from the provinces Southeast Region plans to raise the Issue at the annual meeting of the Manitoba association of school which begins tomorrow in win trustee Karen Peters of Hanover school division says that even though Southeastern school divisions work Well they want to maintain their own with head quarters in is considered one of the fastest growing and More prosperous school divisions in delegates to the associations Conven Tion will vote on a Resolution opposing forced to be tabled by trustees from the Interlake education minister Drew Caldwell has said he wants fewer school divisions by the next general election in october of press resort a conference Centre cuu Lake Manitoba Cham we got Snow snowmobile rentals snowmobile trails country skiing skating tobogganing Sleigh rides Winter wonderland starting at 1866elkhorn 18663554676 Winter clearcut 24 person spa indoor portable spas plugs into Standard 110v outlet Kravco Sargent Berry 7866957 Lagimodiere Grassie 6543847 toll free 18006651411 for March 6977022 to claim your prize one has calculated the effects of adding paternity a spokeswoman for education minis Ter Drew Caldwell said maternity leave is not a funding Issue its a collective bargaining in which the minis Ter Doest but Mast says its a new expense forcing trustees to choose Between higher taxes or taking dollars out of the its a concern to us where All this will Lead that an added Cost to boards that the local taxpayer is going to have to pick Mast president key Toews said from we wonder How we can pay for some of these the fort vital and Transcona Springfield arbitration All cover outstanding contracts which expired last june negotiations for new contracts have been with teachers and trustees feeling their Way through the doer governments Bill which allows teachers to take a wider Range of issues to who no longer have to consider a school Divi Sions ability to Wallis said it would Cost about per female teacher to bring 17 weeks of employment insurance up to 90 per cent of the teachers Normal but he could not speculate on the potential effect of paid paternity Winnipeg one finance chairman Mario Santos warned teachers that the More expensive their salaries and Ben the More Likely school boards will Cut jobs and programs to hold Down taxes teachers have to understand there Are no unlimited seven Oaks school taxes soaring by Nick Martin seven Oaks homeowners could face Manitoba highest school taxes by next school Board chairman mor Ley Jacobs said trustees this week passed a pet cent increase in local school for the owner of a Home assessed at that Means a tax Bill higher than last an owner of a Home will this year pay Only less than the owner of a similar Home in Winnipeg school division the most heavily taxed Urban division and by next seven Oaks May have surpassed Winnipeg one for the dubious distinction of having the highest Jacobs Only tiny Snow Lake and Lynn Lake school districts have higher school Mill Winnipeg one has an sur divisions levies May top All others in 02 plus it can use next year to ease its tax Burden and it received provincial fund ing this year that is proportionally higher than other Jacobs they had triple our provincial Money that he were going to be number one when it comes to taxes next we have no were basically in a deficit Posi were pushing for a change in the funding if they dont change the funding formula next were in deep Jacobs said his Board will add seven paraprofessionals to work with special needs we have a lot of Dis advantaged children in our even More than Well bite the he Brandon homeowners will pay an additional on the average Home assessed at an increase of per cent on the divisions combined most school divisions Only make pub Lic the increase in taxes on the combined which includes the special Levy set by trustees and the education support Levy it is set uniformly across Manitoba by the but is collected on property tax Brandon also makes Public its special which has increased per Assiniboine South school Board chairwoman Wendy Moroz said yesterday that her Board Cut teaching positions last week because of declining enrolment and not As a tax saving school boards must pass their Bud gets by Midnight pharm save your diabetes resource Centre is inviting you to take the diabetes pain less Challenge 16 35 Lakewood 9 1 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