New provincial funding benefits

Beautiful Plains School Division will be getting $1.8 million increase to allocation

By Eoin Devereux Neepawa Banner & Press

The Beautiful Plains School Division (BPSD) is pleased with the announcement of additional funding being distributed by the province.

Late last week, the Manitoba government promised to increase educational funding by $100 million for the next school year. The government says this amounts to about a six per cent increase compared to the previous school year. The money will be divided up among all school divisions.

For Beautiful Plains, the amount of new support comes out to about $1.8 million. Total budget expenditures for 2022-23 were listed by the Division at a little over $24.8 million. If the next budget were