TDSB passes budget for 2025-2026 with plan to eliminate $34.4M deficit

CBC News

· Posted: Jun 19, 2025 8:30 AM EDT | Last Updated: 8 minutes ago

Trustees for the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) person approved a fund for 2025-2026 that includes a program to equilibrium the board's books implicit the adjacent 2 years.

The program includes a fig of cost-saving measures to destruct a $34.4 cardinal deficit, including a intermission connected issuing caller Chromebooks for students successful the coming schoolhouse year in favour of recirculating devices returned by graduating Grade 12 students, a quality merchandise from the committee said. 

It besides includes a $9.5 cardinal spending chopped successful operating expenses for cardinal departments of the committee that volition person "limited impact" connected services. Fees volition besides emergence for immoderate continuing acquisition programming, the TDSB said. 

At a gathering successful April, trustees heard the schoolhouse committee was facing a $58-million shortage for 2025-2026, with unit looking astatine a assortment of options to equilibrium the budget. Since then, trustees person passed much than $20 cardinal successful cuts, resulting successful a existent shortage of $34.4 million, a spokesperson for the schoolhouse committee said. 

One of the cost-cutting options connected the array was closing schoolhouse pools the committee doesn't lease out, which would person saved an estimated $12.8 million. 

However that's not happening aft nationalist outcry. 

Pools and aquatics instructors volition proceed to beryllium disposable to students and assemblage members for different year, the TDSB said successful a Thursday quality release. 

Board unit are moving connected privately leasing much pools portion besides moving with the City of Toronto connected the usage of TDSB pools, the merchandise says. 

The fund indispensable present beryllium submitted to the Ministry of Education by June 30 for last approval.