Ministry staff have been consulting with the Funding Equity Committee on the Labour Settlement Funding allocation methodology and have the following update:
2025-26 School Year
Following the recent ratification of the BCTF collective agreement, funding for teachers and exempt staff wage increases, as well as increases to the Classroom Enhancement Fund have been added to Table E of the Summary of Grants to Date tables for 2025-26.
In addition, the Learning Improvement Fund and CommunityLINK allocations have been updated in Table A.
Funding will flow to school districts as a special grant by the end of May via the Common Disbursement System.
Labour settlement funding for support staff will be announced at a later date.
2026-27 School Year
The tentative plan is to have information available to districts in June.
More information is available in this Overview on Labour Settlement Funding document.
Please contact EDUC.FundingandAllocationUnit@gov.bc.ca if you have any questions.