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- Ontario is investing nearly $90 million dollars to expand child care and child and family support programs in schools and create spaces in schools for community use. As a response to recommendations in Community Hubs in Ontario: A Strategic Framework and Action Plan, the province committed to supporting the use of schools as community hubs.
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May 6, 2016 · A community hub can be a school, neighbourhood centre or other public space that houses coordinated services. Ontario's nearly 5,000 schools offer the ideal location for community hubs, as many of them are the heart of their community and are accessible.
- COMMUNITY HUBS IN ONTARIO: A Strategic Framework & Action Plan
Community hubs offer a number of benefits to respond to...
- COMMUNITY HUBS IN ONTARIO: A Strategic Framework & Action Plan
Publicly funded schools can play an important role in strengthening the communities they serve.1 In recent years, the province has made modest investments to support Ontario’s schools in acting as community hubs, including $28.1 million dollars to help with the costs of keeping schools open after hours for community use. 2
- Introduction
- Supporting The Sustainable Use of School Space in Rural Communities
- Community Hubs and Schools
- Having School Boards Share Space
- Supporting Decision-Making Around School Closures
- Supporting Quality Education in Rural Communities
- How Are Ontario’s Schools Funded?
- In Conclusion
Schools are where we educate our children, and as such, they are at the heart of our communities. Their value extends beyond the classroom – beyond the children and families that they serve – to residents of all ages, interests and life stages. Parents talk about schools as one of the few places where people regularly see each other, share stories,...
The Ontario government is committed to ensuring that schools serve local communities to the greatest extent possible, and that community impacts are considered when school boards make decisions about pupil accommodation. That commitment includes students, who deserve the best possible education experience. There can be tension between these conside...
One strategy available to school boards to sustainably manage school space involves bringing a tenant or partner into a school or a portion of a school, on a cost-recovery basis. School boards across the province have partners in their schools, such as child care providers, early years centres, special education, mental health and well-being servic...
Another strategy to ensure space is sustainably used is to encourage collaboration between Ontario’s four school systems. In some cases, collaboration to create a school facility shared by more than one school board, also known as a “joint-use” school, can result in a school staying in a community and, with a larger total enrolment, being able to o...
In some cases, despite the strategies above, school boards may find it necessary to consider the closure or consolidation of a school, because consolidated schools can give students a fuller and richer range of programs and services, particularly at the secondary level. It also saves the costs of heating, lighting and maintaining aging facilities, ...
The Ministry of Education and Ontario’s school boards have worked together to craft a system of support for achievement and well-being that is designed to ensure equitable access to quality education across the province, no matter where a student lives. However, in rural communities where schools tend to be smaller, providing a broad range of quali...
The largest factor in Ontario’s education funding formula is enrolment, because it’s the number of students that drives the need for teachers, classrooms and other educational supports.However, the funding formula also provides additional supports to account for the varying costs associated with running schools in different parts of the province, e...
Looking forward to the future, our government is committed to continuing to invest in and support students, rural schools, and communities. It is the responsibility of everyone involved in the delivery of education and building strong communities to come together around the common goal of ensuring that students are receiving a high quality educatio...
Community hubs offer a number of benefits to respond to these challenges: • School-community partnerships – enhance learning opportunities and well-being for students. • Respond to local needs – community hubs offer a very concrete way that families can access a range of services. The collaboration between different
Aug. 12, 2016 – One-year progress update on Community Hubs in Ontario; May 2016 – Government News Release: Ontario Helping More Schools Become Community Hubs. Ministry of Education 2016 B9 Memo: Ministry of Education Initiatives to Support Community Hubs
Whether it is an Indigenous Friendship Centre in Northwest Ontario or a surplus school in downtown Toronto that has been repurposed for community use, community hubs bring us together to make a positive difference in the lives of others.
May 18, 2022 · Community access to Ontario school facilities has been sharply curtailed by the COVID-19 pandemic, but it was already shrinking amid funding cuts — and a coalition of social agencies and community advocates wants those cuts reversed by the province’s next government.
