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RSS FeedsDoug Ford dismisses school budget forecast as a `scare tactic´
(The Star Canada)

 
 

14 may 2019 23:56:47

 
Doug Ford dismisses school budget forecast as a `scare tactic´
(The Star Canada)
 


Premier Doug Ford is calling the Toronto District School Board’s warning of a $67.8 million budget shortfall a “scare tactic” and a political stunt as a war of words escalates over provincial education cuts. “The numbers that the TDSB put out are absolutely reckless,” the premier said Tuesday, a day after the board revealed its cash crunch is $13 million worse than expected and could result in cuts to guidance counsellors, learning and reading coaches, custodians and busing of French immersion students, among other services. “Political stunts like this only serve to cause anxiety with parents and with students,” Ford added, describing school boards as “out of control.”Board director John Malloy detailed the numbers at a special meeting, saying staff learned late Friday from the Ministry of Education that provincial cuts to the TDSB will total $42.1 million when officials had expected a $28.7 million cut. Coupled with a structural deficit of $25.7 million for money the board spends that is not backstopped by the province, the total shortfall adds up to $67.8 million in a system with 246,000 students in 582 schools.“We, frankly, have lost some of the flexibility that we’ve had over time to offer services in the way we have,” Malloy said. “That’s why some of the difficult decisions will need to be made over the next month.”More details will come Friday, when the board is slated to release details of courses it will not offer next fall.NDP Leader Andrea Horwath said she’ll believe the school board over Ford’s Progressive Conservative government — which is battling a forecast deficit of $12.3 billion this year — when it comes to the numbers.“It’s only the premier that believes in his own numbers, and his caucus. Everybody else is being upfront with Ontarians and showing the damage this government is going to do,” Horwath told reporters.T ...


 
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