Common use of Secondary Programming Clause in Contracts

Secondary Programming. As part of their Board-Wide Improvement Plan and comprehensive Student Success Plan, Boards will articulate a strategy to expand secondary programming and supports over four years. • The Board-Level Staffing Committee will be engaged in the development of the strategy to expand secondary programming. • This strategy may include increases in course offerings and strategic class size reductions. • The Parties note the government’s intention, conditional upon the approval by the Lieutenant Governor-in-Council, to support the expansion of secondary programming through a new allocation to be introduced in the GSN as follows : o September 1, 2008 : 0.19 teacher per 1,000 secondary pupils; o September 1, 2009 : 0.38 teacher per 1,000 secondary pupils; o September 1, 2010 : 0.70 teacher per 1,000 secondary pupils; o September 1, 2011 : 1.02 teacher per 1,000 secondary pupils; o August 31, 2012 : 1.35 teacher per 1,000 secondary pupils. • The Appendix, “Secondary Programming”, provides the Board-by-Board projections of additional funded secondary teaching positions funded per school year under this allocation. • Boards will hire the full complement of additional funded secondary teachers that result from the new allocation. For the 2008-09 school year, the hiring of additional teachers shall occur at the second semester. • The Board-Level Staffing Committee will be engaged in the allocation of this additional staffing.

Secondary Programming. As part of their Board-Wide Improvement Plan and comprehensive Student Success Plan, Boards will articulate a strategy to expand secondary programming and supports over four years. • The Board-Level Staffing Committee will be engaged in the development of the strategy to expand secondary programming. • This strategy may include increases in course offerings and strategic class size reductions. • The Parties note the government’s intention, conditional upon the approval by the Lieutenant Governor-in-Council, to support the expansion of secondary programming through a new allocation to be introduced in the GSN as follows follows: o • September 1, 2008 : 0.19 teacher per 1,000 secondary pupils; o • September 1, 2009 : 0.38 teacher per 1,000 secondary pupils; o • September 1, 2010 : 0.70 teacher per 1,000 secondary pupils; o • September 1, 2011 : 1.02 teacher per 1,000 secondary pupils; o • August 31, 2012 : 1.35 teacher per 1,000 secondary pupils. • The Appendix, “Secondary Programming”, provides the Board-by-Board projections of additional funded secondary teaching positions funded per school year under this allocation. • Boards will hire the full complement of additional funded secondary teachers that result from the new allocation. For the 2008-09 school year, the hiring of additional teachers shall occur at the second semester. • The Board-Level Staffing Committee will be engaged in the allocation of this additional staffing.