Toronto’s public school board is asking the province for a $150 million injection to cover pandemic-related expenses and other costs, saying cuts to funding “seem reckless and harmful to students, now more than ever.”
The Toronto District School Board made the plea on Wednesday, the day before Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative government is set to unveil its 2023 budget.
“We need adequate, stable and predictable ministry funding to provide the necessary programs and services for our students’ academic success and well-being so that they may emerge from the pandemic ready for whatever comes their way,” said board Chair Rachel Chernos Lin and Director of Education Colleen Russell-Rawlins in a letter to Education Minister Stephen Lecce.