More cuts to school services are coming to Vancouver.

Due to another funding shortage from the province, over $2 million in educational, maintenance, and administrative services for the next school year could be eliminated in Vancouver.

The education cuts recommended by district staff include the closure of two of the city’s three remaining centres for adult education.

The district may also lose all of its career-information advisers, who help high-school students explore options for postsecondary education.

Funding for aboriginal education might also be slashed and King George secondary school staffing could be reduced. Proposed cuts to educational services total almost $1 million, with maintenance and administration absorbing the rest.

The district was previously forecast to have a bigger deficit of almost $15 million for school year 2017-18. This was reduced significantly after the B.C. government created a Classroom Enhance Fund (CEF) after a Supreme Court of Canada decision restoring contract language on class size and composition in the labour agreement with teachers. With its share the Vancouver school district was able to realign costs.

According to former trustee Patti Bacchus, the new round of cuts demonstrates that not much has changed since she and other elected members of the Vancouver school board were fired by the province last October.

“We put our jobs on the line last year to say, ‘No more. We’re not going to say this is okay,’ ” Bacchus said by phone, referring to the previous board’s refusal to pass a balanced budget after services were cut due to a budget gap of $21.8 million.

She added that the trustee appointed by the province after the board’s sacking can deliver a message to the government. “She needs to go back and say, ‘There’s not enough money. This is not okay,’ ” Bacchus said of trustee Dianne Turner. “That would be a powerful message.”

Turner is scheduled to make a budget decision on April 26.