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Originally Posted by darklord700
My kids go to school and I haven't seen any downside effects of the so called education cuts. Is it necessary to to reverse the $100M education cut for career students to stay in campus and party a few more years? Wild Rose here I come.
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1. That's good - are you going to extrapolate that across the entire province?
2. K-12 career students who stay on campus to party for a few more years? I believe that there are students who can take advantage of the education systems policy and attend school after the age of 18, generally this is for people who have severe developmental disabilities and not someone who wants to be a career high school? student.
3. Investing in education is what upsets you about Redford's policies so far - putting money into an area where there is proven results.
After a quick google search I can up this with report from MIT
http://web.mit.edu/workplacecenter/d...l%20Report.pdf
"Every dollar invested in quality early care and education saves taxpayers up to $13.00 in future costs."
"Failing to invest sufficiently in quality early care and education shortchanges taxpayers because the return on investment is greater than many other economic development options."
"Quality early education is as essential for a productive 21st century workforce as roads or the internet; investing in it grows the economy."
I am sure that I could find more but the literature all speaks to the same thing - invest in education and see a positive long term impact on the people of the province and the economy.