Deficit Prompts Toronto School Board to Consider Selling Land

TDSB will do an inventory report to determine whether school sites can be severed and sold off.

Irena Bershad plays with her daughter Katherine at Shaughnessy Public School in Toronto. A recent motion at the Toronto District School Board calls for an evaluation of which schools have excess property that could be sold off to help alleviate a budget deficit in the district. Matthew Little/The Epoch Times

Toronto school trustees launched a media frenzy when the underfunded Toronto District School Board (TDSB) passed a motion to do an inventory report of all schools and determine whether school sites can be severed and sold off.

“I think it’s been blown out of all proportion and misrepresented. The publicity has been that the school board is going to dismantle the playgrounds, which is absolute nonsense,” Irene Atkinson of the Parkdale-High Park ward told The Epoch Times.