Question Period
Education funding
para468
Thank you to the member opposite for the question. It was just two days ago when I was proud to join the Minister of the Environment, Conservation and Parks to announce a new school for the people of London—a cost of roughly $60 million to build a state-of-the-art school for over 800 children, five new child care spaces. We understand the importance of combatting COVID-19 within schools. New facilities will help. Within the London district school board, they have more money to hire more teachers to reduce classroom sizes to well below the provincial average of last year. We appreciate the difficult task of currently providing in-class learning that is safe and quality online learning. It’s why we funded virtual schools, virtual principals, administrative support. It’s why we extended technology to more families in need. It’s why we ensured broadband modernization to all high schools in the province, which is the case in the province of Ontario today. We understand there’s more to do. Yesterday, we announced an additional $700 million to help school boards in London, right across our province, to rebuild schools after a decade of neglect by the former Liberal government.
Latest posts