Alfred Moses

Yes. A lot of the questions that we talked about yesterday when we were going through this, and the other K to 12 system as well. As this is an information item, it is in these areas as well.

Thank you. I appreciate the comments and that's definitely a priority to increase our literacy rates throughout the Northwest Territories in working with the great work that the NWT Literacy Council does as well.

Yes, under the summary here you'd find that under utilities.

Yes, that is correct. We are receiving $600,000 though.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We did have two positions that I believe went through decentralization and then there was one reduction at headquarters.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Government of the Northwest Territories understands the importance of early childhood development and has been focused on developing and implementing programs and services for families with young children for the past few years. Healthy development during the first few years of life is crucial for lifelong success. I would like to share today some of the positive funding changes we are making in early childhood development. In 2014-2015, as a commitment of the Right from the Start Action Plan, the department of Education, Culture and Employment conducted a review of...

Yes. That's Yellowknife, Detah, Ndilo and I believe Lutselk’e.

With a lot of the work that we're doing within Education Renewal some of the work is pretty new so it's too early to really say right now. The way we're doing the funding framework for inclusive schooling is something new as well: the accountability framework on the side, making sure that the schools and the education authorities with the dollars that we give them are being utilized directly for special needs and the students that need that little extra help.

It’s too early to say right now but we are developing these monitoring and evaluation plans to ensure that we're providing adequate...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The PTR that we got for junior kindergarten will not affect PTR from other older grades and throughout the school system. Thank you.

Yes, we are just working on the details but we do have a contribution. Thank you, Mr. Chair. It's $2.8 million.