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Those areas include cutting the overall funding allocated to 246 schools by $22 million, or 2.5 per cent, the CBE said. That will mean some temporary employee contracts will be eliminated and some central and area-based staff will be redeployed to schools.

Cuts worth two to 10 per cent will be made to overall administration through service unit reductions, the CBE said, and a reduction to planned capital spending to the tune of $5 million will also take place.

Due to the elimination of $8 million in provincial transportation funding, there will be an increase in fees mid-year for students who ride school buses.

Silva said school spending has got to the point of “nickel and diming” following a first round of cuts made by principals in anticipation of the provincial budget.

“But it wasn’t enough, and so we are now down to absolute bare bones,” Silva said.

CFO Brad Grundy said parents and students will see impacts in terms of class size.

“When you take educators out of the system, you obviously will impact class size,” he said.

Reductions to service units, which provide a range of programs, services and supports into the school system, will also have impacts, he added.

Grundy said while there will be an increase in transportation fees, there are waiver processes in place to ensure a way to and from school is still available for families who don’t have the ability to pay the increased fees.

“So there will absolutely be impacts, but that’s part and parcel of finding $32 million in the middle of the school year,” he said.