2009-04-12
08:44:23
The Canadian Union of Public Employees says Education Minister Kelly Lamrock wants to chop school library funding by 50 per cent.
CUPE Local 2745 president Sandy Harding says there are 150 library assistants to service 355 schools.
She says CUPE has been lobbying for the past two years to increase funding for school libraries, and now the government is heading in the opposite direction.
CUPE is also saying Lamrock wants to cut school intervention programs, and Harding says there is a one line statement in the provincial budget about the cuts, but no dollar figure available.
