“Ongoing moratorium means boards are spending their limited school renewal funding on maintaining and operating schools that may otherwise have closed,” reads one line of the internal documents, obtained by Global News using freedom of information laws." #OntEd

School closure ban means Ontario boards spending ‘limited’ funds to keep buildings open: docs | Globalnews.ca

Documents written for Ontario’s education minister admit a moratorium on closing schools is stretching the already thin budgets boards have to manage to breaking point.

TDSB: "These circumstances have prevented us from providing the breadth of programming and … has also created costly operational pressures that take money away from increasing opportunities for students and require us instead to invest inefficiently in under-utilized, aging schools.”