The Lakehead Public School Board will be able to access $2 million to help reduce class sizes.
The Ford government has allowed school boards to dip into their reserves to help with their reopening plans.
However, the board’s Business Superintendent David Wright indicates it is still too early to say how that will affect their schools.
“It’s too early because we are waiting for results from our (online) survey and I know administrators in schools are going to be talking to families next week just to get a really good sense of what students are going to choose the learn from home option,” explains Wright.
He admits “It’s perhaps not the announcement we were looking for in terms of full funding from the ministry but it absolutely opens up from flexibility for us and for that we are appreciative.”
The school board official adds “We’re going to do the best we can within the parameters the ministry announced” on Thursday.
