New Oakville Northeast school gets $2.9 million from province for childcare spaces
Published February 4, 2022 at 4:13 pm
The provincial government is investing $2.9 million to help provide childcare spaces in a new Northeast Oakville high school being built.
The investment will see 88 childcare spaces and five new childcare rooms constructed in the new Oakville NE #1 school that will hold up to 1200 students and was approved in 2020-21 Capital Priorities.
Oakville North Burlington MPP Effie Triantafilopoulos (pictured below) said the investment in the Halton District School Board is part of the government’s commitment to building modern, accessible, and technologically connected schools for Ontario youth.
“Eighty-eight new childcare spaces and 5 new childcare rooms, to be built with the new Northeast Oakville high school, is great news for our fast-growing community,” Triantafilopoulos said.
“This new $2.9 million investment will mean more choice in childcare and shorter waiting lists for working families in Northeast Oakville. Our government continues to invest in what matters most – our children and youth.”
The project is part of a provincewide investment of more than $600 million to support new school and childcare spaces that were recently announced by Ontario Minister of Education Stephen Lecce.
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The overall investment will support 78 school and childcare related projects. As part of this investment, the province dedicated more than $565 million to create more than 19,700 new student spaces and 1,500 childcare spaces at schools across the province.
The provincial government has promised to provide $14 billion to support school construction over 10 years.
