Fair wages to educational support staff is an issue residents voiced during the provincial pre-budget consultation meeting.
Teacher assistant Lisa Bolton says more funding needs to be put into teacher assistants, library assistants, and intervention workers to assure children receive a quality education.
Bolton says it’s hard for teacher assistants to even survive on their hours and wages.
She says this province cannot become self sufficient if those helping teach the youth continue to get paid just over $16 thousand dollars a year.
