Indigenous Services Canada renews commitment to fully fund Stoney Nakoda students attending Canadian Rockies school
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A 'renewed commitment' from Indigenous Services Canada has resolved a funding issue that had threatened to halve the number of Stoney Nakoda Nation students able to attend a school in the Canadian Rockies school division.
Without full and sustained funding from the ISC, the Canadian Rockies Public Schools board of trustees had made the 'difficult decision' April 30 to cut about 150 seats — from the current 306 — dedicated to Stoney Nakoda Nation students beginning in September, a decision that would have affected students at the kindergarten to Grade 8 Exshaw School. The Canmore-based school division had warned that further reductions were possible in future years unless the situation was resolved.
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