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Susan E. Jackson

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13 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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One other question. One other question on performance measures and then we can move. Just on page B -138, and I am going over to the Primary Schools now. There is a second line item under business unit 1705, Primary Schools. There is a line here that says, Percentage of schools achieving their school improvement objective for mathematics. Again, at …
13 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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Thank you. My question, sticking with, I am still on page B-138— Hon. Diallo V. S. Rabain: Oh, I thought you were moving from there?
13 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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I know. Sorry. Not yet. You created another question. But I still am asking the Minister if we have a primary school that may be falling below the perfor-mance measures for a school that is achieving their objectives in reading, mathematics or writing, an d that school is the school that is being chosen as the parish primary school and …
13 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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Yes, please, Mr. Chairman. That was a nice segue to page B -131, Head 17, Department of Education, the General Summary. I was just taking some notes during the briefing. And line item 27095, School Attendance. And it has zero. So there is no cost allocated to this. But if I remember correctly, you said that this had transferred to …
13 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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And then sort of my final question on this line item is, Do we feel that this $3,640,000 may still not be enough? And that we are actually building up our allocation of substitute teach-ers incrementally year over year until we can get to a population of s ubstitutes that is a healthy balance in order to support our teachers …
13 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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Thank you. Hon. Diallo V. S. Rabain: And the other question, the attendance figure, that is something that we will really have to do some research on. It is not something that is at [our fingertips] right now. But I will commit to get you those numbers.
13 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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My next questio n, I am still on page B -131, General Summary, Department of Education, Head 17. And I would like to look at 1702, Student Services, in particular 20061, Behaviour Management. The operating cost under Behaviour Management is $1,292,000. And this year it has been decreased by $156,000. I am wondering if the Minister might be able to …
13 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. So I am just still going to stay on this train of thought, on page B -131 under General Summary and still looking at the Alternative Education programmes and if it applies to the Behaviour Management as well. But we will stay on 27084, Alternative Education Pro-gramme. And I am not sure, Minister, whether you addressed …
13 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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Before we move off of page B-131, General Summary, still the Department of Education, Head 17, line item 27083. And this is the Au-tism Programme. We have $685,000 that we spent last year on the programmes. I was just wondering if the Minister could please give us a bit of a breakdown of what that $685,000 goes toward, what the …
13 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Minister. I am going to move on from the General Summary to page B -133, Department of Education. I just wanted to ask a couple of questions around Early Childhood Education, which is under General Summary, 1712, I believe [business unit] 27175, which is the Child Development. And then that has the programmes, et cetera. I am curious …
13 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Minister. Just as a follow -on for that, I have asked this question before, maybe not to you but over the years. And I am going back a bit. But why did we cancel out the idea of members of staff from Child Development actually going to the hospital and recording, or maybe nowadays you do not physically …
13 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Minister. This is my last comment on that. Oftentimes we find that the parents who do come are the parents who are proactively and actively involved in their child’s development and may feel much more secure and confident to reach out. And it is the ones who are quiet and reserved who maybe need our support the most. …
13 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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Mr. Chairman, I would like to move to Head 16, Ministry of Education Headquarters. I just had a couple of questions. There are not that many line items here. And as I work through this I may find that the Minister has already addressed some of these quest ions. So, I am on page B -127, Head 16, Ministry of …
13 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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Then I just had one other question, Minister. On page B -128 of the Ministry of Education Headquarters, Head 16, Subjective Analy-sis. Under the expenditure, there are the Professional Services. And that is at $4 million this year, which is up $1,394,000 from last year. Please, I apologise if I missed it. But I did not hear in the brief …
13 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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Thank you. That was a good enough explanation for me. Thank you. I just have like a couple of trivial questions. We have the time so I can ask. I am so sorry, Mr. Chairman, but I am going to switch over to Head 17, Department of Education, on page B -134. What are pre- school vouchers? Hon. Diallo V. …
13 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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Yes. It is under revenue. I just could not figure it out. Hon. Diallo V. S. Rabain: I will have to endeavour to find that out. I am thinking that is for the After School Programme where persons pay for after school. I believe that is where the vouchers come from because you buy these vouchers and then you submit …
13 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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No question in the House of Parliament is a trivial question.
13 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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I did, I did. I did, I did, I did. Once I got the answer, I realised it was substantive. I have a substantive question.
13 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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So just two others while we are on page B -134. Repair and Maintenance. I noticed that Repai r and Maintenance has actually gone down this year, $164,000. I do not know if this is directly associated with, let us say, Clearwater closing. But with the costs going down, but like construction costs going up, I was just wondering why …
13 Mar 2023 House of Assembly
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Thank you.