The Northwest Catholic District School Board is using several thousands of dollars from its reserve fund to support the increase of literacy-coach time at its area schools.
Board chair Anne-Marie Fitzgerald says increasing the times of its literacy coaches can only lead to improvements in the classroom.
"There goal is to promote student learning and raise achievement in the area of literacy," says Fitzgerald. "We have found the role of the literacy coaches in our schools to have a profoundly positive effective on improving literacy targets board wide."
The $170-thousand will be help cover salary and benefits needed to increase the hours of the literacy coaches.
