The Rainbow District School Board trustees voted on accommodation reviews for schools in six planning areas and eight schools will be closing their doors.

Carl A. Nesbitt, Chelmsford Public School, Cyril Varney, Ernie Checkeris, Lansdowne, Pinecrest, Webbwood and Westmount will be no more with students moved to different schools between 2017 and 2019.

Two new schools will be built, Queen Elizabeth II Public School and a new French Immersion school in New Sudbury.

Lasalle Secondary, CVDCS and Confederation will all be retrofitted to welcome new grade 7 and 8’s.

The board recommendations are subject to Ministry of Education capital funding, but would save 2.2 million dollars annually in operating costs, eliminate nearly 15 hundred surplus spaces and allow them to balance their budget by 2019-2020.

The changes would also save the board 31.9 million dollars in capital renewal costs.

Last fall, the board voted to keep Lively District Secondary School and Chelmsford Valley District Composite School open.

Though French immersion with be phased out of CVDCS.

 

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