Funding Regulations
Regulation- Registration
- R-044-2000
- Source
- Unofficial consolidation PDF (justice.gov.nt.ca)
- Under
- Education Act
This is an unofficial reading copy parsed from the Department of Justice consolidation PDF above — itself an office consolidation, not an official statement of the law. The authoritative text is in the Revised Statutes of the Northwest Territories, 1988 and the annual Statutes volumes.
The Minister, under section 151 of the Education Act and every enabling power, makes the Funding Regulations.
In these regulations, "Act" means the Education Act.
(1) The student teacher ratio referred to in paragraph 128(1.1)(a) of the Act for a particular financial year is the ratio of full-time equivalent students in the Northwest Territories in that year to the number of teaching positions funded in the Northwest Territories in that year, where
(a) one full-time equivalent student is an attending student other than one listed in either paragraph (b) or (b.1);
(b) one half of one full-time equivalent student is an attending student who
(i) attends a kindergarten education program that operates for less than 750 hours in a school year,
(ii) has not attained the age of 22 years and attends a senior secondary education program in which he or she is enrolled in less than 40% of a full course load,
(iii) has attained the age of 22 years and attends a senior secondary education program in which he or she is enrolled in not less than 40% of a full course load, or
(iv) is detained in or committed to custody under the Youth Justice Act or the Youth Criminal Justice Act (Canada) or detained in custody or serving a term of imprisonment under the Criminal Code (Canada) and who is scheduled to attend the school program for less than 50% of the hours that full-time students are required to attend the school program;
(b.1) one quarter of one full-time equivalent student is an attending student who has attained the age of 22 years and attends a senior secondary education program in which he or she is enrolled in less than 40% of a full course load; and
(c) the number of teaching positions is the number of funded teaching positions in the education program for kindergarten to grade 12, and includes positions for principals, vice-principals and program support teachers but does not include positions for holders of aboriginal language teaching certificates issued under the Education Staff Regulations made under the Act.
(2) In subsection (1),
"attending student" means a student who, during the month in which enrolment is taken for the purposes of funding, attends the school program, or is absent from the school program with parental or school permission, on not less than 40% of the days on which students are required to attend the school program; (élève fréquentant un établissement d’enseignement)
"funded" means funded by
(a) the Government of the Northwest Territories, or
(b) money collected from property taxes for education purposes that is received by the education body in accordance with the power allocated to the education body under paragraph 119(c) of the Act. (financé)
Funding for student support services referred to in paragraph 128(1.1)(b) of the Act is any funding for those services that have the purpose of enabling students to have access to the education program in a regular instructional setting under section 7 of the Act, including the following:
(a) funding for student support consultants, program support teachers and student support assistants;
(b) funding for operating expenses associated with program support such as materials and supplies, specialized equipment and staff development;
(c) funding to supplement regular busing funding for students with identified special transportation needs;
(d) funding for additional education costs of a facility at which a student resides where the facility is outside the education division or, if there is no education division, the education district in which the student normally resides, and
(i) the facility at which the student resides provides treatment or medical care to the student; or
(ii) the student is detained in or committed to custody under the Youth Justice Act or the Youth Criminal Justice Act (Canada) or detained in custody or serving a term of imprisonment under the Criminal Code (Canada). R-011-2007,s.3.
The operation and maintenance funds provided in a financial year for the delivery of the education program, referred to in paragraph 128(1.1)(b) of the Act, do not include any amount that may be provided as a result of the transfer of responsibilities between departments and agencies of the Government of the Northwest Territories after the 1999-2000 financial year.