B.C. sets up $60 million back-to-school affordability fund for families
British Columbia is seeking to ease the burden of back-to-school prices with a one-time $60-million fund that expands meal packages and helps households pay for provides and discipline journeys.
Schooling Minister Jennifer Whiteside says households are already fighting rising prices attributable to inflation and the federal government’s fund goals to take the sting out of prices related to the return to highschool subsequent month.
Whiteside says each faculty district within the province will obtain a minimal of $250,000.
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The president of B.C.’s Confederation of Advisory Councils says the affordability initiative will permit particular person faculties and college districts to supply aid to households in want.
Chris Schultz-Lorentzen says households will probably be inspired to achieve out to their advisory councils and college principals to get a share of the funding.
Whiteside says the fund is one in every of a variety of measures the federal government will ship within the coming days to assist individuals hardest hit by inflation.
