The previous Liberal government first promised the review and enacted the moratorium in 2017, when it was under fire from the Opposition Progressive Conservatives and parents over school closures
TORONTO — Ontario's public school boards are calling on the province to lift a moratorium on school closures and to finally complete a review – started six years ago – of how those closure decisions get made.
Six years in, boards are facing "unsustainable funding deficits," because it costs the same to maintain and heat a school whether it's full or at 25 per cent capacity, the association said. "If they're not going to close schools, and of course, all of us have issues around that, but if they're not going to allow boards to close schools, they have to be able to properly fund boards, to be able to build the new schools that they need," she said.
"They also wanted to have a little bit more involvement in the process because the school is so central to the growth of communities, particularly in rural communities." Abraham said all of the factors that made school closures such a politically sensitive issue at the time are still in place, and the public school boards association recognizes them.
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