Toronto | School Board cuts over 300 jobs

The Toronto District School Board has voted to eliminate 200 high school teaching jobs, 134 office staff and 17 elementary vice-principals.

The cuts are meant to help the Board deal with a $85-million budget shortfall in 2012-13.

There are reports that the board could face an additional $25 million on top of the $85 million due to funding changes announced last week by the province when it unveiled its 2012 budget.

Trustees have put off a decision to slash 430 education assistant jobs in order to allow time to retrain the workers to become early childcare educators to work in full-day kindergarten classes.

The board did vote to make increases. There will be 215 more elementary school teachers and 394 new lunch room supervisors.

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