Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce says the province is putting $1.3 billion toward building and expanding schools.
He says the money will go toward creating 27,093 new student spaces and 1,759 child-care spaces.
It is part of a planned $16 billion over the next 10 years to build schools and child-care spaces, as announced in the province’s recent budget.
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Lecce says he has also introduced a plan to cut construction timelines in half, encouraging boards to standardize the design of new school construction so they can be built faster.
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Cathy Abraham, the president of the Ontario Public School Boards’ Association, says it will help ensure that students across the province have access to modern, state-of-the-art learning environments.
The government says since 2018, it has approved or supported the development of more than 300 school-related projects, and more than 100 of those are actively under construction.
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