Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Going back to the inclusive schooling review, what is the total funding need that's been identified by that review? The Minister referenced that it may, in fact, be greater than $30 million. As we're broaching that subject now, if she could inform the House of what that total gap looks like. Thank you.
Thank you, Member from Range Lake. Minister of Education, Culture and Employment.
Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, that's information that I do not currently have at my fingertips on the floor of the House. It's also information that has not yet been shared with education partners or with Members of the committee on accountability and oversight. Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, will the -- Jordan's Principle funding shortfalls -- like, if the federal government's programs don't work for the North, because we're not sure that they will yet, will this new $30 million that's been committed -- will some of that be able to support the gap left behind by the Jordan's Principle shortfall? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the inclusive schooling review did cover things, for example, like access to therapeutic services, which some Jordan's Principle funding did cover. It also did speak to needs of students, which some of the needs of students are access to supports within classrooms, and also spoke to the simple nature of the -- and I say simple, but very complex nature of the change of the needs of students across this territory. So certainly there would be an overlap of some of it, but because of the fact that the Jordan's Principle funding applications went directly from education bodies to the federal government, it would not be -- it wasn't something that we participated in, that we vetted, and so it's not something that I would be able to say it is an exact one-to-one and certainly there were things that were involved in that that would not be covered off under an inclusive schooling policy because, for example, some things had to do more with school food funding, some things had to do with the purchase of cultural infrastructure, so certainly there will be some differences. Thank you.
Thank you, Minister of Education, Culture and Employment. Final supplementary. Member from Range Lake.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, and granted that these will be different programs. So just to clarify, this -- will there be -- what are the strings attached to this new funding so education bodies can understand? Is it the same policies that covered inclusive education -- or inclusive schooling funding before, or are we expanding the criteria to ensure the dollars reach farther and address some of those things that Jordan's Principle was filling? Because that's partially why we're so dependent on Jordan's Principle, the money wasn't going far enough, and it wasn't being -- it couldn't be used everywhere that it could be, and Jordan's Principle could be used at the time these applications were made, anywhere, for anything.
So can the Minister just clarify that these dollars are going to go to solve those problems and help keep our kids educated and -- yeah, let's leave it there. Thanks.
Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the dollars committed really are directly for the inclusive schooling review. They're committed to our JK to 12 education system, to the students who need them. And very much look forward to being able to sit down with committee, go through that review, go through the management response, go through the projected costs that will be associated with it, and ensure that our education bodies also have access to this information prior to that. Thank you.
Thank you, Minister of Education, Culture and Employment. Oral questions. Member from Yellowknife Centre.
