Capital Priorities Program News Today

The HWDSB has received $31.2 million in funding from the government of Ontario to build a new elementary school in the Waterdown area.

Nearly 1,000 new student spaces are coming to southwestern Ontario with the construction of two new elementary schools, the province announced on Wednesday.

The residential building boom in west and southwest London has strained existing schools that must accommodate the additional students moving in every year.

A piece of surplus land that has served as an extended backyard for some Napanee residents may be sold to the town’s only Catholic school.

The school board is currently considering three different boundary options, with students from various areas being diverted to the new Northglen school.

With Ingersoll enjoying unprecedented growth in recent years, the need for a new elementary school in the Oxford County town has become more and more pressing.

Provincial funding, however, has gone to other French public board projects, most recently a new school in Orléans South.

  WINDSOR, ONT. -- The Greater Essex County District School Board announced Monday a site has been acquired to build a new school in Tecumseh. The 5.79-acre site will house a new dual track (English / French Immersion) school for students in the Tecumseh and Lakeshore areas. The Ministry of Education recently approved $3.7 million in funding to support this acquisition for the new school. The property is located north of Tecumseh Road in Tecumseh, and just west of Arlington Blvd., near t...