Government cancels literacy grant for schools

from the Vancouver Sun, Fri Dec 18 2009, Janet Steffenhagen.

B.C. schools have lost another government grant.

Vancouver district officials say they were told last week the Education Ministry has cancelled the literacy innovation grant, which contributed $204,000 to Vancouver schools and $5 million to schools provincewide.

"These funds have provided direct staffing support to some of our most vulnerable schools to support the district's focus on literacy," Vancouver's management team said in a report to school trustees. Just last spring, the ministry told managers the grant was safe, the report says. The grant is one of several cancelled this fall.