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From a release<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n BEDFORD:<\/strong> New schools in Bedford and Dartmouth are part of Nova Scotia\u2019s five-year school capital plan, ensuring all students have modern learning spaces that will help them prepare for future opportunities, the province announced on Feb. 12. The updated plan also includes continued funding for maintaining schools and adding modular classrooms. \u201cThese investments support future students and help build communities that families want to call home.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”92″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”31″] Two of the schools opening next year \u2013 \u00c9cole sur la p\u00e9ninsule d\u2019Halifax and St. Joseph\u2019s-Alexander McKay Elementary School \u2013 are in Halifax and \u00c9cole Baie Sainte-Marie will serve French first-language students in Clare. – in 2025-26, the Province is investing $210 million in building and maintaining schools, including $40 million to be invested in new modular classrooms and $30 million in capital repairs<\/p>\n\n\n\n – 12 of the 19 new schools are in Halifax Regional Municipality and three are Conseil scolaire acadien provincial (CSAP) schools that support French first-language learning<\/p>\n\n\n\n – under the updated plan, CSAP school \u00c9cole des Beaux-Marais\u00a0in Chezzetcook will now be a pre-primary to Grade 12 school, instead of pre-primary to Grade 8<\/p>\n\n\n\n – five new schools opened in 2024-25: Breton Education Centre in New Waterford, Springhill Elementary School in Springhill, \u00c9cole Wedgeport in Wedgeport, \u00c9cole Belle-Baie in Torbay and Eastern Shore Consolidated School in East Chezzetcook [adrotate group=”6″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”34″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”127″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”93″] [adrotate banner=”192″] From a release BEDFORD: New schools in Bedford and Dartmouth are part of Nova Scotia\u2019s five-year school capital plan, ensuring all students have modern learning spaces that will help them prepare for future opportunities, the province announced on Feb. 12. The updated multi-year plan now includes planning for 19 new or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45214,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,957],"tags":[528,2008,185,48,7757,7758],"class_list":["post-52292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-bedford","tag-brendan-maguire","tag-dartmouth","tag-n-s","tag-new-schools","tag-school-capital-plan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
The updated multi-year plan now includes planning for 19 new or replacement schools. Three will open in the 2025-26 school year. Added to the plan are two new schools to be built in high-growth areas of Dartmouth and Bedford. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cKeeping ahead of growth in our communities is critical for the well-being of Nova Scotia\u2019s students and families,\u201d said Brendan Maguire, Minister of Education and Early Childhood Development. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The school capital plan is investing more than $1 billion over multiple years in building and maintaining schools. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Quick Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Additional Resources:
<\/strong>Nova Scotia School Capital Plan: https:\/\/www.ednet.ns.ca\/capitalplan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n