Funding for aboriginal education in Vancouver has been spared from the chopping block.

The Vancouver school board has discarded a previous recommendation to reduce the budget for aboriginal education by $150,000.

The abandoned measure was part of preliminary proposals earlier presented by senior management to slash a total of $2.13 million in services for school year 2017-2018.

The cuts are intended to achieve to balanced budget required by provincial legislation.

A revised set of proposals have been prepared, and is expected to be approved Wednesday (April 26) by Dianne Turner, the official trustee of the Vancouver school board.

In a previous report, district staff noted that about 2,100 students or four percent of the total student population identify as aboriginal.

Staff also reported that the aboriginal education department has had an annual surplus of around $200,000 over the last three years.

In a new report, the proposal to trim aboriginal education funding by $150,000 was removed.

The revised set of budget proposals was made based on “feedback and further information obtained thus far”, according to the fresh report.

Changes include adjustments to an earlier proposal to close two of the three remaining adult education centres in Vancouver.

The previous recommendation was to shutter the Main Street Education Centre based at Gladstone Secondary School on the east side of the city, and the Gathering Place Centre located downtown, and consolidate services at South Hill Centre.

The new proposal provides that Gathering Place Centre will continue to operate for one more year. Main Street Education Centre will close.

A total of $2.13 million in educational, maintenance, and administrative services will be lost in the next school year.

Included in the cuts are all positions held by career information advisors (CIAs), who help high school students prepare for post-secondary education

According to the staff report, “many of the supports that CIAs currently offer to students will now be covered in the coursework”.