Ontario Introduces New Strategy to Speed Construction of Schools

Education Minister Stephen Lecce has announced a plan to cut building time for new schools in half as Ontario looks for ways to meet the needs of the province’s expanding population. The average school construction project is between four and seven years; too lengthy a timeline for growing communities, Mr. Lecce said at a Dec. 11 press conference in Brampton. “Hundreds of thousands of people will be moving to Ontario in the coming years and it simply cannot take a decade to build [a] school in this province any longer,” Mr. Lecce said. “We’re unveiling a plan that will reduce the timelines by 50 percent.”...