Toronto St Bruno/St Raymond Catholic School | 11.2m | 3s | TCDSB | Kohn Shnier

[AlbertC]

http://app.toronto.ca/DevelopmentAp...4478927&isCofASearch=false&isTlabSearch=false

270 BARTON AVE
Ward 19 - Tor & E.York District

Proposal to construct a new three-storey elementary school for the Toronto District Catholic School Board.

From the supporting documents:

 

[greenleaf]

Currently a very fine looking mid-century school building.

 

[interchange42]

This is right cross the street from Christie Pits Park, to the northwest of it.

from Google Street View

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[Filip]

Public schools are bursting at the seams yet I only seem to see Catholic schools getting built?

 

[ADRM]

From the docs:

 

[ChesterCopperpot]

Public schools are bursting at the seams yet I only seem to see Catholic schools getting built?

https://www.thestar.com/news/queens...vernment-cancels-100m-school-repair-fund.html

 

[Filip]

https://www.thestar.com/news/queens...vernment-cancels-100m-school-repair-fund.html

I'm afraid that didn't answer my question.

TCDSB/TDSB are funded from the same provincial government, so....?

 

[ChesterCopperpot]

Maybe the Ministry of Education can answer it for you then

 

[Filip]

Maybe the Ministry of Education can answer it for you then

So why quote my post and offer an article about recent funding cuts to education?

What does that have to do with the continued build of new Catholic schools vs. public schools that are not getting the same amount of funding?

Get the Vatican to pay for it.

 

[ChesterCopperpot]

Why are you asking random people on the internet instead of your elected official?

 

[interchange42]

From the docs:

View attachment 162938

Robonto is everywhere.

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[Filip]

Why are you asking random people on the internet instead of your elected official?

Because that's the point of this board?

Guess we should shut down UT because random people on the internet shouldn't be asked anything.

 

[ADRM]

Demolition of the old school has begun.

 

[Northern Light]

Because that's the point of this board?

Guess we should shut down UT because random people on the internet shouldn't be asked anything.

I'll tell you. It's because The MOE (min. of Education) calculates available capacity based on all TDSB school properties, including the ones that are used as adult facilities, that are leased out, or dormant.

They do that because it's long been the view in the provincial ministry that the TDSB was being laggardly in getting rid of surplus property.

Using the stats the way I stated, and taking them on a City wide basis (not broken down by sub-district), the TDSB still shows surplus capacity.

So the MOE tends only to fund replacement schools, rather than new, only when that school is full to the brim, and there's no other school in the area that can take the students.

This also solves a convenient problem for the MOE of having to fund Toronto's capital needs, which it doesn't want to.

It also means that the TDSB is not alllowed to collect development charges for new schools in Toronto, but the Catholic Board is.

https://www.thestar.com/yourtoronto...-help-expand-overcrowded-toronto-schools.html

https://www.pressreader.com/canada/village-post/20160301/281775628233004

 

[interchange42]

Slow response from me (catching up in some parts of the Forum) but that's rather shocking @Northern Light. Surely that's all bizarre politics and not helpful in actually fulfilling the role of providing spaces for children to learn.

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