For the first time since 2021, Hamilton’s public school board is increasing staff as it starts budget deliberations for the coming school year even though it can’t yet precisely calculate how much provincial funding it will get.
There seemed to be little consensus at a meeting on options for relieving overcrowding at Waterdown’s Mary Hopkins Elementary School, other than that the area badly needs a new school.
Hamilton’s public school board says it can no longer fulfil a 2013 commitment to provide all employees a living wage because their pay is now bargained provincially