Hanover School Division will be laying off approximately 93 educational assistants (EAs) due to what they describe as an “unexpected loss of federal funding for Jordan’s Principle programming in the 2024-25 school year.” HSD Superintendent Joe Thiessen said that the division was not aware that the funding model for the program recently shifted from provincial to federal. CBC reports that the division was instructed to reapply for the funding and has had to lay off 93 EAs who were working with Indigenous students in the meantime. Though the division will be minimizing disruptions as much as possible for impacted students, one mother told CBC that the loss will have a significant impact on her child, whose EA has “really been a key to the success that he’s actually having in school right now.”
