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SD 20 faces huge deficit

Another round of near-impossible budget cuts are coming for the Kootenay Columbia School District.

This from chair darrel ganzert as they face a $1.3 million deficit.

He says after years of cutting in so many areas it seems certain teacher jobs will be lost.

Ganzert says job losses won’t be clear till the spring.

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$500,000 of the deficit is a direct result of student enrolment decline.

But $400,000 is because of what he calls the government’s irrational cut to admin spending and another $250,000 is a penalty for not following special education budget rules.

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