Education Minister Jody Carr will sit down with district education councils from the Anglophone sector as concern over the provincial government's budget cuts continues to escalate.

Jeaninne St. Amand, the chairwoman of the District 18 Education Council, said every budget cut made by the Fredericton-area council will impact classroom learning. (CBC)The education minister will talk to the education officials about the budget cut that has already been ordered and the bigger cuts the David Alward government is planning for the coming years.

Carr has ordered councils to reduce spending by 0.8 per cent in this budget year but that the cuts not hurt classroom education.

Jeaninne St. Amand, the chairwoman of the District Education Council in Fredericton, said every cut made by the council will impact classroom education.

"Everything, all spending in education touches the classroom somehow, whether it is in the short term or the long term," St. Amand said.

"So I think the intention is to minimize the impact in the classroom, which means we have to look at more the long-term things that we spend money on, like professional development."

Besides this weekend's meeting with the education minister, an "ideas forum" on education will be held in early February.

School officials across the province are having varying amounts of success coming up with items to cut from their budgets.

Education Minister Jody Carr is planning to meet with school officials from the province's Anglophone school districts this weekend to discuss the province's planned budget cuts. (CBC)Ernest Thibodeau, the chairman of the District 1 Education Council, which represents francophone schools in the Moncton area, Fredericton and Saint John, said his district would not make the budget reductions because all options would hurt classroom learning.

Meanwhile, John MacDonald, the director of finance for School District 6, which oversees Anglophone schools in communities such as Rothesay, Quispamsis, Hampton and Sussex, said the district managed to make cuts without impacting classrooms.

The Progressive Conservative government is trying to ratchet back the $820-million deficit forecasted for 2010-11. And Finance Minister Blaine Higgs has warned the budget deficit could hit $1 billion unless cost-cutting measures are undertaken.