School divisions need to stand with Indigenous Canadians and demand the federal government fix the persistent funding shortage faced by First Nations students, Winnipeg School Division Chair Sherri Rollins says. "Chronic underfunding on reserve comes at a cost." Rollins estimates on-reserve schools, which are funded by the federal government, are underfunded $4,000 to $6,000 per student. People are unable to complete their education that we've agreed for decades and decades and decades in this country that that's the bar, a high school education," she said. Ottawa school children rally on behalf of First Nations education on Parliament Hill in June 2012.

Source: CBC News September 19, 2016 16:02 UTC