Testart blames minister, not Ottawa, for many YK school funding issues
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YK school boards say costs outpace funding Representatives of two Yellowknife school boards – Yellowknife Education District No 1 and Yellowknife Catholic Schools – discussed concerns with the territorial funding model in June, telling city councillors the model has not kept pace with actual costs.
Both school boards said that even after making around $1 million in cuts each, they needed a 14-percent increase in school tax revenue to cover funding gaps.
According to the city, that would have amounted to the average residential taxpayer contributing an extra $368.
After further changes, the school boards ultimately increased school tax revenue the city collects by 0.21 percent but said they still had “serious concerns” about the territory’s funding model.
The Yellowknife school boards are the only education bodies in the NWT that rely on municipally collected tax revenue, which is expected to cover at least 25 percent of the cost of delivering elementary school programs.
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Testart blames minister, not Ottawa, for many YK school funding issues
Emily Blake
Wednesday October 28, 2026 at 5:49am MT
Kieron Testart. Ollie Williams/Cabin Radio
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Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart says decisions by the NWT government are doing as much damage to Yellowknife schools’ budgets as federal Jordan’s Principle cuts.…
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