SD73 waiting for new year to hear about capital funding

Nov 14, 2022 | 4:58 PM

KAMLOOPS — The Kamloops-Thompson Board of Education is waiting until the new year to hear if it will receive funds for all of its top three projects on its capital funding wish list.

While the Ministry of Education has already confirmed support for two new elementary schools, the board is still pressing for a new high school in Aberdeen.

“From our perspective as a district, where the board and then operations kind of work in tandem, is being able to continue to communicate with the property owner around what we’re expecting, and [we] hope that we can get support from the ministry,” Heather Grieve, chair of the Kamloops-Thompson School Board told CFJC Today.

In order to obtain the proposed site for the secondary school, the ministry will need to support the project in next year’s budget, but according to Grieve, overcrowded schools are hardly unique to the Kamloops-Thompson School District.

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“This is part of the problem,” Grieve said.

“We are growing at a small- to medium-size elementary school a year. Other districts are growing at 700 plus students per year, so we’re, I think, ranked fourth, I believe [in the province].”

According to the Ministry of Education, the new high school is being considered alongside funding requests from the other 59 boards of education in the province.

by Sydney Chisholm

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SD73 waiting for new year to hear about capital funding

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