Provincial funding is tabulated for the number of students who have arrived in our schools by September 30 of that school year. Any students who arrive after that, October 1 and on to the end of June, are not funded by our provincial system. Those students must be accommodated within our existing resources. That adds a real challenge, particularly when you're dealing with refugee students who are bringing in a multitude of special needs. We're trying to create new programs or alter current programs to accommodate them and that's a huge challenge for us. They're not being recognized when they come as having these issues, and so we end up with them and we need to help them be successful.
On November 28th, 2006. See this statement in context.