Platforms and Budgets: Why Ontario’s Schools Matter

May 3, 2022

Ontario’s Schools Matter

Over the years, Fix Our Schools has received many photos of the visible disrepair in Ontario’s schools. We recently received this photo from a school in Eastern Ontario, where a leaking roof is dripping through the light fixtures into permanently placed buckets in the hallway. You can see that ceiling tiles have been replaced with grates so the water can flow freely and prevent further damage to any ceiling tiles. Clearly not an ideal scenario for the students and adults who spend their days in this building. Also, clearly not a fiscally responsible way to manage the assets we call schools. Fixing capital assets reactively is always more expensive than taking care of assets proactively. However, to proactively maintain Ontario’s schools would require a provincial government that prioritizes these capital assets and, therefore, provides adequate, stable funding to properly invest in these assets.

Despite the fact that the Ford government touts its annual funding of $1.4-B/year for school repairs and renewal, the sad fact is that the repair backlog in Ontario’s schools has increased year over year with this level of funding, and has reached an alarming $16.8-B total. This, of course, means that photos such as the one here are not a rarity. Unfortunately, it also means that many other types of school disrepair lurk beneath the surface because often disrepair is invisible.

Consider Thistletown Collegiate Institute in Doug Ford’s riding with a total of $20.6-M of outstanding repairs that include such items as: “foundation repairs”, “HVAC pumps renewal”, “roof coverings renewal”, and “air distribution, heating and cooling – duct systems renewal”. These repairs are all noted as urgent or high priority items, but are not possible to photograph because they are repairs that are not readily visible.

A Thoughtful, Comprehensive Platform

Over the past four years with Doug Ford as Premier, we have seen a provincial government that has failed time and again to prioritize public schools and education. This was not surprising to us, given that the Ford government’s platform back in 2018 was scant, at best, and highlighted policy priorities such as “Buck-A-Beer” rather than anything of real value to Ontario, such as addressing the massive repair backlog in our public schools or developing standards of good repair for Ontario’s schools.

Fix Our Schools was pleased to see the Ontario NDP party release a thoughtful and comprehensive platform over a month prior to the provincial election, leaving voters plenty of time for reading and consideration. The NDP platform includes many specific commitments to ensuring Ontario’s publicly funded schools are safe, healthy, well-maintained, and provide environments conducive to learning and working including:

Clearing the school repair backlog within 10 years.
Hiring more custodians and maintenance staff
Establishing a province-wide standard for cleaning and school repairs
Upgrading public school buildings to make them carbon neutral and climate resilient, and bringing those same principles to new school buildings, to ensure they meet international energy efficiency standards.
Ensuring that all schools have up-to-date ventilation systems to prevent the spread of infection during potential future waves of COVID-19.
Fixing the rules around education development charges so they can fund the new schools families need.

We would expect any party who is serious about governing Ontario for the coming four years to have an equally thoughtful and comprehensive plan for publicly funded schools in this province.

Ford’s Budget Fails to Prioritize Schools … Yet Again

If this week’s provincial budget is any indication of how Doug Ford would treat public schools in this province if elected to serve another four years, then we can expect more of the same – an abject failure to prioritize schools and education. Ford’s recent budget allocated a paltry $14-B over 10 years for capital investments in schools, which translates into only $1.4-B/year for school repair, renewal and for building new schools and additions. Given that the annual allocation for school repair and renewal has been $1.4-B/year since 2016, this proposed commitment of only $14-B over 10 years means that either:

We can expect the same inadequate $1.4-B/year annual funding for school repairs and renewal that have lead to year over year increases and a total school repair backlog of $16.8-B (and growing), OR
We will see a decrease in this $1.4-B/year school repair and renewal funding in order to allocate some funding for new school builds.

Either scenario is bad for Ontario’s schools and bad for Ontario’s students, teachers, and education workers who deserve safe, healthy, well-maintained learning and working environments. After the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of school conditions (especially aspects such as proper ventilation), it is unfathomable that the Ford budget would basically ignore schools as critical infrastructure.

Going live on @cbc Ontario morning at 7:40 to react to the budget

Quick analysis:

developers > students

highways > schools

gimmicks > commitment

🤷🏻‍♀️ #osstf #onted #onpoli

— osstfkaren (@karenosstf) April 29, 2022

This week’s budget also included a plan to “expedite school construction with modular builds”, which leaves us wondering how current best practices in sustainable design and decarbonization strategies will factor in to any new school builds in the coming years? Nothing about the phrase “expedite school construction with modular builds” seems to conjure up best practices in environmental and sustainable design. So this is a big question in our minds.

Also of note is that on top of the massive repair backlog in Ontario’s schools (which doesn’t even include portables or schoolyards, and also does not include aspects of school infrastructure such as air quality, temperatures, asbestos, and water quality), much retrofitting is needed for existing schools to become more environmentally sustainable.

As you engage with your local candidates in the coming weeks, please be sure to keep in mind the 2-million children in this province who spend their days in schools – and ask every candidate about the lack of any standard of good repair for these buildings, and how they plan to address the flawed funding approach that has lead to $16.8-B of disrepair in Ontario’s schools. To make things easy for you, we’ve prepared this one-page sheet you can easily print and keep handy during the election! You may also like to visit the FAQ section of our website for some quick background information on the issue of school conditions in Ontario.

Voting: A Privilege and a Responsibility

April 20, 2022

With Ontario heading to the polls on June 2, each party is trying to convince us that they are best positioned to govern our province for the coming four years. As citizens, we have the privilege to vote in Ontario’s provincial election, and with this privilege comes the responsibility to educate ourselves and ensure we cast our votes wisely. We need to consider the issues that really matter to us, and ensure that those issues are prioritized within a party’s platforms before we cast our vote. A party’s platform reflects that party’s policy priorities, and provincial policies matter because they influence the type of life we experience living in Ontario.

Fix Our Schools wants to see a provincial government elected that prioritizes publicly funded schools and education. Over the past four years with Doug Ford as Premier, we have seen our provincial government fail time and again to prioritize public schools and education. This was not surprising to us, given that the Ford government’s platform back in 2018 was scant, at best, and highlighted policy priorities such as “Buck-A-Beer” rather anything of real value to Ontario, such as addressing the massive repair backlog in our public schools.

As voters, we also need to consider our local candidates and how they will personally serve our ridings in the coming four years. And, if we live in a swing riding, where the local candidate who is polling to win does not reflect our values and priorities, then we may be well served to consider strategic voting. Strategic voting occurs when we decide to vote not for our preferred party/candidate, but for a stronger contender in order to defeat the likeliest winner. For instance, if we view a PC victory as an undesirable outcome, we may vote for the NDP candidate who is polling second in our riding, even though our usual preference is the Green candidate. This strategic voting would be done with the hope of preventing the PC candidate from winning.

Here are some actions you can take and questions/messages you can send in the coming weeks to make it easy for you to have an impact.

Find out who all your local candidates are by visiting the following links: Green Candidates; Liberal candidates; NDP candidates; PC Candidates
Contact all your local candidates via email or phone call to ask questions and let them know that public schools and education are a priority for you
Print out this one-page document of conversation starters and questions, and keep it near your front door so anyone in your household can easily engage when candidates are door-to-door campaigning
Visit the FAQ section of our website for some quick background information on the issue of school conditions in Ontario and solutions to ensure all Ontario schools are safe, healthy and well-maintained
Attend local debates and submit questions/ask questions
Engage with Fix Our Schools on Twitter and Facebook to amplify our messages and make schools a priority issue
If you live in Toronto, you may be interested in a new grassroots campaign called Not One Seat, that is working to ensure Doug Ford does not win one seat in the GTA. Engage with them on social media, and consider getting involved with this 100% volunteer-run initiative.

As voters, we all have the power to make a difference in the coming election, and to ensure that our next provincial government prioritizes issues that are important to us. So in the coming weeks leading up to the provincial election, take the opportunity to use this power wisely!

MPP Gates: $106.1-M of Disrepair in Niagara Falls Schools

April 8, 2022

Dear MPP Gates,

Did you know there is $106.1-million of disrepair in the publicly funded schools in your riding of Niagara Falls?

In 2018 MPP Gates signed the Fix Our Schools Pledge to create a Standard of Good Repair for Ontario schools

We commend you for signing the Fix Our Schools Pledge during the election, and making the personal commitment to ensure all Ontario’s schools are safe, healthy, well-maintained buildings that provide environments conducive to learning and working. However, as you know, the Ford government has not done any work towards fulfilling this commitment.

To that end, we are sharing the following details of disrepair in each school in your riding in the hope that this detailed information would underscore the importance of developing standards of good repair for Ontario schools and also the importance of providing the adequate, stable provincial funding to school boards required for them to meet those new standards and eliminate the $16.8-billion repair backlog (as of June 2021) that plagues Ontario’s schools:

Total disrepair in each publicly funded school in Niagara Falls:

ÉÉP LaMarsh	$ 4,395,859
A N Myer SS	$ 5,172,154
Cherrywood Acres PS	$ 1,236,562
Crossroads PS	$ 300,115
Forestview PS	$ 10,300
Fort Erie SS	$ 10,854,284
Garrison Road PS	$ 1,403,544
Greendale PS	$ 1,018,915
Heximer Avenue PS	$ 461,111
James Morden PS	$ 583,639
John Marshall PS	$ 634,172
Kate S Durdan PS	$ 146,219
Martha Cullimore PS	$ 1,181,239
Orchard Park PS	$ 401,579
Peace Bridge PS	$ 133,900
Prince Philip PS	$ 1,482,032
Princess Margaret PS	$ 1,310,591
RidgewayCrystal Beach HS	$ 9,924,291
River View PS	$ 1,339,783
Simcoe Street PS	$ 1,875,622
St Davids PS	$ 21,980
Stamford Collegiate SS	$ 6,616,374
Stevensville PS	$ 1,004,262
Valley Way PS	$ 498,087
Victoria PS	$ 671,040
Westlane SS	$ 5,069,886
Cardinal Newman Catholic E S	$ 1,139,462
Father Hennepin Catholic E S	$ 2,425,143
Loretto Catholic E S	$ 146,219
Mary Ward Catholic E S	$ 4,754,203
Notre Dame Catholic E S	$ 2,339,501
Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic ES	$ 6,237,589
Our Lady of Victory Catholic E S	$ 2,640,199
Sacred Heart Catholic E S	$ 1,352,132
Saint Michael Catholic High School	$ 478,950
Saint Paul Catholic High School	$ 9,388,589
St Gabriel Lalemant Catholic E S	$ 1,398,740
St George Catholic E S	$ 252,350
St Joseph Catholic E S (s)	$ 1,180,380
St Mary Catholic E S (n)	$ 3,560,809
St Michael Catholic E S	$ 2,000,064
St Patrick Catholic E S (n)	$ 4,170,530
St Philomena Catholic E S	$ 3,057,671
St. Vincent de Paul Catholic E S	$ 182,310
ÉÉC NotreDamedelaJeunesse Niagara	$ 607,775
ÉÉC SaintAntoine	$ 1,025,098

School conditions matter. They impact student learning, attendance, and health, and must be a higher priority for our next provincial government than they have been with the current Ford government.

PLEASE NOTE: Fix Our Schools is relying on the most recent disrepair data provided by the Ministry of Education in Fall 2017 and has mapped postal codes provided by the Ministry for each school to riding postal code information from a third party. Therefore, it is possible that there may be small errors in the data provided here and we would be grateful if community members would contact us with any errors.

Minister Bethlenfalvy: $88.1-M of Disrepair in Pickering-Uxbridge Schools

April 8, 2022

Dear Minister Bethlenfalvy,

Did you know there is $88.1-million of disrepair in the publicly funded schools in your riding of Pickering-Uxbridge?

In 2018 MPP Bethlenfalvy signed the Fix Our Schools Pledge to create a Standard of Good Repair for Ontario schools

We commend you for signing the Fix Our Schools Pledge during the election, and making the personal commitment to ensure all Ontario’s schools are safe, healthy, well-maintained buildings that provide environments conducive to learning and working. However, as you know, your government has not done any work towards fulfilling this commitment.

Total disrepair in each publicly funded school in Pickering-Uxbridge:

St. Elizabeth Seton C.S.	$ 848,016
St. Isaac Jogues C.S.	$ 1,050,212
St. Joseph C.S. uxbridge	$ 1,074,020
St. Mary C.S.S.	$ 1,356,136
St. Monica C.S.	$ 566,826
St. Wilfrid C.S.	$ 592,777
Altona Forest PS	$ 375,512
Bayview Heights PS	$ 3,597,939
Claremont PS	$ 4,264,895
Dunbarton HS	$ 11,512,164
Elizabeth B Phin P.S.	$ 227,723
Fairport Beach PS	$ 3,472,946
Frenchmans Bay PS	$ 2,014,485
Gandatsetiagon PS	$ 2,054,498
Glengrove PS	$ 3,109,330
Goodwood PS	$ 1,939,853
Highbush PS	$ 3,918,169
Joseph Gould PS	$ 2,609,145
Maple Ridge	$ 1,197,492
Pine Ridge SS	$ 9,539,548
Quaker Village PS	$ 382,486
Rosebank Road PS	$ 957,838
Scott Central PS	$ 1,892,390
Sir John A Macdonald PS	$ 4,822,044
Sunderland PS	$ 3,357,616
Uxbridge PS	$ 3,269,050
Uxbridge SS	$ 5,586,088
Valley Farm	$ 2,946,820
Valley View PS	$ 1,560,645
Vaughan Willard PS	$ 2,379,407
Westcreek PS	$ 322,426
William Dunbar PS	$ 2,589,360
Ballantrae PS	$ 2,724,010

School conditions matter. They impact student learning, attendance, and health, and must be a higher priority for our next provincial government than they have been with the current Ford government.

MPP Kernaghan: $99.2-M of Disrepair in London North Centre’s Schools

April 8, 2022

Dear MPP Kernaghan,

Did you know there is $99.2-million of disrepair in the publicly funded schools in your riding of London North Centre?

In 2018 MPP Kernaghan signed the Fix Our Schools Pledge to create a Standard of Good Repair for Ontario schools

We commend you for signing the Fix Our Schools Pledge during the election, and making the personal commitment to ensure all Ontario’s schools are safe, healthy, well-maintained buildings that provide environments conducive to learning and working. However, as you know, the Ford government has not done any work towards fulfilling this commitment.

Total disrepair in each publicly funded school in London North Centre:

ESC Monseigneur Bruyère	$ 4,559,191
Blessed Sacrament Catholic School	$ 1,762,651
Catholic Central High School	$ 2,241,080
Mother Teresa Catholic Secondary School	$ 694,238
St. Catherine of Siena Catholic School	$ 38,080
St. Kateri Catholic School	$ 1,556,266
St. Mark Catholic School	$ 2,755,797
St. Mary Choir Catholic School	$ 1,610,260
St. Michael Catholic School, London	$ 367,705
St. Thomas More Catholic School	$ 1,172,242
A. B. Lucas SS	$ 11,970,630
Central SS	$ 2,151,851
Eagle Heights PS	$ 575,146
East Carling PS	$ 1,615,449
H.B. Beal SS	$ 637,378
Hillcrest PS	$ 3,035,865
Jack Chambers PS	$ 812,822
Jeanne Sauvé FI PS	$ 2,068,397
Knollwood Park PS	$ 6,394,588
Lord Elgin PS	$ 3,783,133
Lord Roberts FI PS	$ 5,238,780
Louise Arbour FI PS	$ 7,874,274
Masonville PS	$ 3,555,141
Northbrae PS	$ 4,788,108
Orchard Park PS	$ 558,201
Ryerson PS	$ 7,185,125
Sir John A. Macdonald PS	$ 6,508,911
St. George’s PS	$ 5,866,700
University Heights PS	$ 2,484,706

School conditions matter. They impact student learning, attendance, and health, and must be a higher priority for our next provincial government than they have been with the current Ford government.

How Do You Approach Voting? What Do You Consider?

April 5, 2022

The freedom and agency we enjoy living in a democratic society is a privilege. The ability to exercise our democratic right by voting in elections is also a privilege. With a provincial election coming up in June, our hope is that every eligible voter in Ontario will exercise their right to vote and will do so with thoughtfulness. We invite you to be part of an open, respectful dialogue about how we approach voting, and what we consider when casting our ballots. How do you approach voting and what things do you consider when voting?

Our Personal Priorities and Beliefs:

Voting is a personal decision. Therefore, a good starting point is to get clear on our own priorities and beliefs. At Fix Our Schools, we are passionate about publicly funded schools and education. For members of our working group these are the key priorities for us in any provincial election. In particular, our focus has always been on ensuring safe, healthy, well-maintained schools that provide environments conducive to learning and working.

We believe school conditions matter and can positively (or negatively!) impact students’ health, attendance, performance and achievement.
We believe that our provincial government must provide adequate, stable funding for school infrastructure.
We believe that a necessary source of public revenue is corporate taxes, which have been dropping as a proportion of their profits for years.
We believe that standards of good repair must be in place for schools, schoolyards and portables, and that data must be collected to ensure these standards are met.

These beliefs serve as guiding lights for Fix Our Schools as we make decisions on which candidate to vote for in a provincial election. We want to cast our ballot in a way that most aligns with our priorities and beliefs.

Party Platform:

A political platform outlines a party’s values and beliefs, and provides a sense of which issues the party prioritizes. A platform also provides a sense of the policies a political party would adopt relative to an issue.

Back in 2018, Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative (PC) party won a resounding majority based on a platform dubbed a “Plan for the People”, with a large emphasis on “restoring respect for the taxpayer”. The details of PC party’s education platform were scant at best, and made no mention of addressing the $15.9-billion of disrepair that plagued Ontario’s publicly funded schools back in 2018 (spoiler alert: total school disrepair in Ontario has grown to $16.8-billion under Ford’s leadership). The PC platform also did not mention fixing the flawed provincial education funding formula that has allowed our schools to accumulate such an enormous level of disrepair.

In short, the PC party’s 2018 election platform under Doug Ford did not align with the personal priorities and beliefs of the members of Fix Our Schools’ working group outlined above. Therefore, we looked at casting our votes for candidates other than our local PC candidates.

For the upcoming provincial election, we will be looking closely at the education platforms of all parties, and have been trying to influence those platforms. We want to see safe, healthy, well-maintained schools prioritized. Fix Our Schools suggests that for the 2022 provincial election, we all pay attention to party platforms and demand answers and details on how each party plans to improve and fix Ontario’s publicly funded schools. We believe that every individual has the power to influence a party’s priorities and platforms.

In 2018 parents from a single school council banded together to submit questions about school disrepair at a local all-candidates debate. The result? School disrepair was the first topic to be discussed by all candidates at their local debate. The whole community heard about the importance of schools in our communities.

Swing Ridings and Strategic Voting:

A swing riding is a riding where the voting result was close previously, and there is a reasonable chance the outcome could be different this time. Many ridings in Ontario “swung” from Liberal to PC in the 2018 election and are polling to return to being Liberal in 2022. The 2018 election also included 17 new ridings, which don’t yet have a historical voting pattern.

Strategic voting occurs when a citizen decides to vote not for their preferred party, but for a stronger contender in order to defeat the likeliest winner. For instance, if a voter views a PC victory as an undesirable outcome, they may vote for the NDP candidate polling second in that riding, even though their usual preference is the Green candidate. This strategic voting would be done with the hope of preventing the PC candidate from winning.

In the upcoming provincial election, there are many ridings that have been identified as possible swing ridings where voters could choose to vote strategically.

Fix Our Schools wants a provincial government that:

Provides a thoughtful, detailed election platform that serves as the mandate from which they govern
Prioritizes public education and schools
Provides the funding needed to meet the standards we want for schools and education in this province
Is transparent
Meets with stakeholders and values/integrates their input into policy

While Fix Our Schools is a non-partisan campaign, we have seen the Ford government fail students, families, teachers and communities for 4 years. Based on past performance, we suggest you consider voting strategically for the candidate in your riding who has the best chance of defeating the PC candidate.

Looking ahead to the June Provincial Election:

As you consider who you will vote for in the provincial election this June, please think about the 2-million children in Ontario who spend their days in publicly-funded schools. At the moment, $16.8-billion of disrepair exists in these buildings. There are no measurable standards in place to even specify what constitutes “acceptable school conditions” and our provincial government does not collect data about the results achieved through investing in schools. We believe this situation needs to change – so we will be voting for change.

MPP Natyshak: $169.6-M of Disrepair in Essex Schools

March 25, 2022

Dear MPP Natyshak,

Did you know there is $169.6-million of disrepair in the publicly funded schools in your riding of Essex?

In 2018 MPP Natyshak signed the Fix Our Schools Pledge to create a Standard of Good Repair for Ontario schools

We commend you for signing the Fix Our Schools Pledge during the election, and making the personal commitment to ensure all Ontario’s schools are safe, healthy, well-maintained buildings that provide environments conducive to learning and working. However, as you know, the Ford government has not done any work towards fulfilling this commitment.

Total disrepair in each publicly funded school in Essex:

EEC Monseigneur Augustin Caron	$ 1,875,732
EEC Pavillon des Jeunes	$ 2,149,639
EEC SaintAmbroise	$ 2,094,036
EEC SainteUrsule	$ 1,511,160
Amherstburg Public School	$ 6,928,597
Anderdon Central Public School	$ 4,285,332
Belle River District High School	$ 14,273,023
Belle River Public School	$ 2,387,178
Colchester North Public School	$ 3,862,484
Essex District High School	$ 3,973,639
Essex Public School	$ 138,411
General Amherst District High School	$ 20,314,652
Gosfield North Central Public School	$ 3,816,983
Harrow Public School	$ 4,329,603
Jack Miner Public School	$ 6,912,587
Kingsville District High School	$ 19,443,200
Kingsville Public School	$ 7,497,397
LaSalle Public School	$ 2,484,457
Malden Central Public School	$ 1,807,334
Prince Andrew Public School	$ 3,752,025
Sandwich Secondary School	$ 10,290,001
Sandwich West Public School	$ 6,108,105
Western Secondary School	$ 7,412,564
Holy Cross Elementary School	$ 333,677
Holy Name Essex	$ 21,294
Sacred Heart Sep S	$ 4,156,796
St Anne’s HS	$ 65,910
St Anthony	$ 50,308
St John de Brebeuf Sep S	$ 242,645
St John the Baptist Sep S	$ 4,810,023
St Joseph Sep S	$ 5,648,482
St Thomas of Villanova SS	$ 11,452,803
St William Sep S	$ 3,620,645
Stella Maris Sep S	$ 1,456,593

School conditions matter. They impact student learning, attendance, and health, and must be a higher priority for our next provincial government than they have been with the current Ford government.

MPP Glover: $52-M of Disrepair in Spadina-Fort York Schools

March 24, 2022

Dear MPP Glover,

Did you know there is $52-million of disrepair in the publicly funded schools in your riding of Spadina-Fort York?

In 2018 MPP Glover signed the Fix Our Schools Pledge to create a Standard of Good Repair for Ontario schools

We commend you for signing the Fix Our Schools Pledge during the election, and making the personal commitment to ensure all Ontario’s schools are safe, healthy, well-maintained buildings that provide environments conducive to learning and working. However, as you know, the Ford government has not done any work towards fulfilling this commitment.

Total disrepair in each publicly funded school in Spadina-Fort York:

St Mary CS	$ 5,001,321
St Michael (Leased from City of Toronto)	$ 1,405,892
ALPHA Alt Jr School	$ 2,947,186
Charles G Fraser Jr PS	$ 8,234,956
Contact Alt School	$ 2,729,134
Downtown Alt School	$ 976,736
Givins/Shaw Jr PS	$ 5,909,091
Island PS/Natural Science School	$ 2,002,140
Market Lane Jr & Sr PS	$ 1,394,876
Ogden Jr PS	$ 3,541,203
Ryerson CS	$ 17,513,814
The Waterfront School	$ 325,498

School conditions matter. They impact student learning, attendance, and health, and must be a higher priority for our next provincial government than they have been with the current Ford government.

MPP Andrew: $137.6-M of Disrepair in Toronto-St. Paul’s Schools

March 24, 2022

Dear MPP Andrew,

In 2018 MPP Andrew signed the Fix Our Schools Pledge to create a Standard of Good Repair for Ontario schools

Did you know there is $137.6-million of disrepair in the publicly funded schools in your riding of Toronto-St. Paul’s?

We commend you for signing the Fix Our Schools Pledge during the election, and making the personal commitment to ensure all Ontario’s schools are safe, healthy, well-maintained buildings that provide environments conducive to learning and working. However, as you know, the Ford government has not done any work towards fulfilling this commitment.

Total disrepair in each publicly funded school in Toronto-St. Paul’s:

D’Arcy McGee CS	$ 4,709,860
Holy Rosary CS	$ 2,848,465
St Alphonsus CS	$ 2,469,779
St BrunoSt. Raymond	$ 1,860,175
St Thomas Aquinas CS	$ 4,142,861
Brown Jr PS	$ 3,626,839
Cedarvale CS	$ 3,496,152
Cottingham Jr PS	$ 2,030,588
Davisville Jr PS	$ 9,656,651
Deer Park Jr & Sr PS	$ 11,774,599
Eglinton Jr PS	$ 235,405
Forest Hill Jr & Sr PS	$ 15,913,752
Hillcrest CS	$ 4,287,581
Humewood CS	$ 4,174,046
J R Wilcox CS	$ 5,185,465
North Toronto CI	$ 277,830
Northern SS	$ 38,992,135
Oriole Park Jr PS	$ 4,531,226
Vaughan Road Academy	$ 17,414,976

School conditions matter. They impact student learning, attendance, and health, and must be a higher priority for our next provincial government than they have been with the current Ford government.

MPP Burch: $$152.9-M of Disrepair in Niagara Centre Schools

March 23, 2022

Dear MPP Burch,

Did you know there is $152.9-million of disrepair in the publicly funded schools in your riding of Niagara Centre?

In 2018 MPP Burch signed the Fix Our Schools Pledge to create a Standard of Good Repair for Ontario schools

We commend you for signing the Fix Our Schools Pledge during the election, and making the personal commitment to ensure all Ontario’s schools are safe, healthy, well-maintained buildings that provide environments conducive to learning and working. However, as you know, the Ford government has not done any work towards fulfilling this commitment.

Total disrepair in each publicly funded school in Niagara Centre:

ÉÉP Champlain	$ 2,465,435
ÉÉP Nouvel Horizon	$ 1,344,883
ÉSP Confédération	$ 13,048,711
DeWitt Carter PS	$ 5,745,693
Eastdale SS	$ 14,034,692
Edith Cavell PS	$ 523,294
Fitch Street PS	$ 1,664,555
Glendale PS	$ 1,175,693
Gordon PS	$ 758,458
McKay PS	$ 4,143,085
Oakridge PS	$ 2,307,272
Oakwood PS	$ 2,551,334
Ontario PS	$ 443,364
Plymouth PS	$ 1,171,399
Port Colborne HS	$ 19,814,629
Prince of Wales PS	$ 583,495
Princess Elizabeth PS	$ 1,622,667
Quaker Road PS	$ 61,800
Richmond Street PS	$ 2,005,151
Ross PS	$ 1,232,845
Steele Street PS	$ 2,771,248
Thorold SS	$ 453,509
Welland Centennial SS	$ 2,665,207
Westdale PS	$ 2,175,381
Westmount PS	$ 1,082,612
Alexander Kuska K.S.G. Catholic E S	$ 1,977,600
Holy Name Catholic E S	$ 5,250,331
Lakeshore Catholic High School	$ 17,027,361
Monsignor Clancy Catholic E S	$ 8,551,935
Notre Dame College School	$ 3,964,618
St Andrew Catholic E S	$ 1,258,526
St Anthony Catholic E S	$ 3,319,080
St Augustine Catholic E S	$ 2,097,195
St Charles Catholic E S	$ 2,055,880
St Kevin Catholic E S	$ 5,718,795
St Mary Catholic E S (w)	$ 5,020,189
St Patrick Catholic E S (p)	$ 615,163
St Peter Catholic E S	$ 1,033,763
St. John Bosco Catholic E S	$ 2,825,189
St. Therese Catholic E S	$ 3,351,022
ÉÉC du SacréCœur Welland	$ 1,056,974
ÉÉC SaintFrançoisd’Assise	$ 48,566
ÉÉC SaintJoseph	$ 1,915,153

School conditions matter. They impact student learning, attendance, and health, and must be a higher priority for our next provincial government than they have been with the current Ford government.