Education Funding: A brief to the Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services

http://www.bctf.ca/uploadedFiles/Publications/Briefs_Position_papers/EducationFunding2007.pdf

• No improvements were achieved in specialist positions. These positions support the students with special needs. Counselling is an essential form of support for those with special needs—and other students as well—but that support did not increase. Teacherlibrarian positions finally stopped falling, but these positions that support the development of a literate populace were already down substantially over the first years of this decade.