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Teachers recognize the investment the Manitoba government is making in public schools.
But because it s using the same public school funding scheme introduced by the previous government that money will not get to the students who need it most and property tax bills will still go up just to try to maintain existing programs and services. Currently, the money that comes from the provincial government to pay for public schools covers only 60 percent of what it actually costs to operate them each year property taxpayers are on the hook for the rest. Annual inflation is running at 2.5 percent. In spite of the increases provided by this government over the last two years, in real dollars, the provincial funding scheme of the Manitoba government is contributing less money for public school operations than it did 15 years ago, said Speelman. Many Manitoba school divisions and districts do not have the tax base to produce the funds needed to maintain education programs and services.