FREDERICTON, N.B.-  New Brunswick’s education minister says there’s no guarantee that schools will be getting all the funding they were expecting this year.

Jody Carr says his department is still in the process of determining budgets for the schools this year, but has notified principals they will be getting 70 to 75 per cent of their funding now, with another instalment later.

 However, Carr says he can’t say how large that second instalment will be. “There’s been no decision made on the 30 percent or the 25 percent”, says Carr. “That will be done in consultation with districts as we continue in the next two to three weeks building our budget so that we can respond to the needs of students and at the same time respond to the budget pressures that we have”.
 
The president of the New Brunswick Teachers Association says cutting funding will hurt educational services.

Heather Smith says principals should have been notified of the funding changes earlier, not six weeks into the school year.