And, one other thing the Minister is pressing administrators need to keep affordable is the cost of going to pre-school. He said the Ministry fought budget cuts in this important area:
Hon. Patrick Faber, Minister of Education
"In fact one of the areas that we saw cuts being proposed and we made a very strong defense was for our pre-schools grants and this is in order for us to try to do everything from our point of view in order to ensure that pre-schools keep their doors open, but not only keep their doors open, keep it affordable. When a school receives the kind of grant in aid, I am talking about pre-schools in particular from the government, those schools are then expected to charge a minimal cost. We make the appeal to parents and we thank you for raising the question that this is a very important level of education and in fact our children need to start strong and we do them an injustice by not ensuring that they're there and the ministry remains committed to do all that it can do to ensure that this level of education remains affordable."
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