The head of the Lambton Kent District School Board says it's still too early to say if there will be teacher layoffs in the fall.
The Progressive Conservative government announced school board funding for the coming school year Friday.
Director of Education Jim Costello said they're still waiting for numbers specific to Lambton-Kent.
"We're reviewing the information that was released today in grants for student needs, but there were no numbers attached to it specific to a board, so the numbers that have come out are provincial numbers," said Costello. "In the next week or two we'll receive a technical paper from the Ministry of Education, and we'll go through that and we'll start to be able to see what the impact will be for the Lambton Kent District School Board specifically. At that time we'll know a lot more."
The province is marginally increasing overall funding to school boards.
Education Minister Lisa Thompson said they expect boards will not have to lay off teachers due to class size and e-learning changes, because of a new Attrition Protection Allocation.
Costello said they've read those comments but they're not able to make a determination until they see the actual numbers.
Earlier this month, the public school board issued layoff notices to 111 teachers, 52 in the elementary panel and 59 at the secondary level.
