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The end of a provincial funding stream could trigger staffing changes in Southwestern Ontario’s largest public school board as it drafts its own budget and awaits news of its provincial funding for the next school year.

The Thames Valley District school board notified more than 100 staff Tuesday about potential job changes to satisfy timeline requirements stipulated by different collective agreements, director of education Laura Elliott said.

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“Because of the uncertainty of our grants this year, we thought we needed to provide notices to all our program staff to make sure that we do have a balanced budget that we submit to the province by the end of June,” Elliott said.

TVDSB is expecting to know by late this month or early April the funding it will receive from the province for so-called grants for student needs (GSNs).

Another parcel of provincial money, so-called local priority funding, runs out in August. The funding allotment was handed out to every school board in Ontario two years ago. TVDSB used it to hire a variety of different positions, including educational assistants and other support staff.