Across the province, the backlog budget is about $16 billion for some 4,900 publicly funded schools. Yet a government that is all the time yammering about families and what parents want seems profoundly deaf to the quantifiable needs of kids at schools that are literally falling down around their heads. Well, families have been calling for years for money to deal with the repair backlog, for safe schools. “Just to take care of what you already own.”That’s nowhere near what schools have received for repairs, even at the most generous Liberal standard. “It just needs money to fix.”Fifty-eight of the MPPs elected in June had signed a Fix Our Schools “pledge,” ensuring a standard of “good repair” would be developed for Ontario schools and the backlog eliminated.

Source: thestar September 04, 2018 21:56 UTC