KING—VAUGHAN — Today, Stephen Lecce, MPP for King—Vaughan, announced that the new Tanya Khan Public School and child care centre is now open and welcoming new students in September for the 2024-25 school year. This project is a part of Ontario's ongoing efforts to build and improve local schools, with MPP Lecce securing $22.6 million for the York Region District School Board to build the new school in Kleinburg.
MPP Lecce joined parents from the community to announce this project in October 2020, and less than four years later, from start to finish, the school is opening on-time for the benefit of children and families in Vaughan.
This project creates 638 net-new elementary spaces and 39 licensed child care spaces for local families for the 2024-25 school year. The investment is part of Ontario’s commitment to providing approximately $16 billion to support school construction, renewal and improvement over 10 years. Since 2018, the Ontario government has approved or supported the development of over 300 school-related projects including child care, of which more than 100 are actively under construction. Under then Education Minister Stephen Lecce, the Government doubled the school building fund, and cut construction timelines in half.
“I was proud to deliver and now open this modern school in less than four years – from start to finish – providing a modern STEM-focused learning space for our kids,” said Stephen Lecce, MPP for King—Vaughan. “This new state-of-the-art school with ensure our students can go back to the basics of reading, writing, and math without distractions as we remove cell phones, social media and vaping from the classroom. As MPP, my priority remains delivering for our community – from new elementary and high schools, to a new medical school and long-term care homes, I am committed to getting the job done in the community I love and was raised in.”
Additionally, Ontario is taking action to ensure that school board capital assets are used effectively and efficiently to meet the needs of growing communities, support student learning and ensure value for taxpayer dollars. The Better Schools and Student Outcomes Act, 2023 empowers decision-makers to build modern schools faster by better utilizing school capacity, reducing barriers for school boards to facilitate agreements for schools in multi-use buildings such as condo towers, and shortening planning time through design standardization when constructing, renovating, or making additions to schools.
Highlights of the project include:
638 new student spaces
2 new child care rooms (39 new child care spaces)
Tanya Khan Public School is located at 422 Barons Street in Kleinburg.
Quick Facts:
Since 2018, the Ontario government has invested more than $3.6 billion in capital construction projects in education, including 139 new schools, 109 additions and renovations to existing facilities, creating more than 98,000 student spaces and over 8,000 new licensed child care spaces.
For the 2024-25 school year, the ministry will provide renewal funding of approximately $1.4 billion to school boards to revitalize and renew aged building systems and components.
The Better Schools and Student Outcomes Act, 2023 ensures the public education system focuses on what matters most: teaching important life‑long skills such as reading, writing and math; improving accountability and transparency for parents and families; maximizing capital assets of boards to support building modern schools faster and better utilizing current school capacity.
Ontario secured a $13.2 billion agreement with the federal government that will lower fees for families to an average of $10 a day for children under the age of six under the Canada‑wide Early Learning and Child Care system.
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