The local Catholic board is feeling snubbed by the province after being left off the list for a piece of the $498-million going towards new schools and more child care spaces in Ontario.
Barb Holland, chair of the Windsor-Essex Catholic District School Board, says the board has been pushing the ministry to help build a new $25-million Catholic Central High School in the inner city.
"I think seven years is a very long time to wait and to get 'no' year after year after year, especially when we are doing all the right things and we are in such a good position," says Holland. "To look at that list and to see where the funding went and to not see our name on it was tremendously disappointing."
Holland says the Ministry of Education hasn't given good enough reasons for holding off on funding the new school.
"That their own engineering says that the school is 'good to go' and that's just not so based on the engineering reports we have and some actually that we've received from the ministry," says Holland.
The funding announcement saw the local public board receive $30.5-million to build two new elementary schools — one in Windsor, the other in Tecumseh. A government news release says the money will build 30 new schools in the province along with funding 26 major renovations and creating 2,135 new licensed child spaces.