New Democrats call for Auditor General to look into failed BCeSiS program

New Democrats are calling on the Auditor General to investigate whether or not then Education Minister Christy Clark did due diligence before leaving taxpayers on the hook for an expensive computer program that will now need to be scrapped.

“As the education minister who brought in this software, Christy Clark needs to explain what due diligence she did before moving ahead with a computer program that has drained $90 million directly from the education ministry, and cost school districts countless millions more in lost productivity and training costs,” said New Democrat education critic Robin Austin.

If the premier won’t give the public the answers they deserve, Austin hoped the Auditor General would step up and get those answers.

Over the last few years, numerous school districts raised concerns about the fact that the BCeSiS student tracking software was expensive, difficult to use, and worked poorly, yet the Liberals ignored them, and wasted millions of dollars of education resources in the process.

Austin said New Democrats would be raising these issues in the coming legislative session and they will be looking for the Premier to be forthcoming in the House.