{"id":157965,"date":"2023-06-06T15:03:15","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T19:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=157965"},"modified":"2023-06-06T15:03:15","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T19:03:15","slug":"school-board-projects-major-growth-in-long-term-plan-expects-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/school-board-projects-major-growth-in-long-term-plan-expects-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"School board projects major growth in long term plan, expects challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Schools throughout the Upper Grand District School Board are expected to face challenges with capacity in future years as student numbers grow.<\/p>\n<p>There is a plan in place to monitor this expansion, according to Ruchika Angrish, Upper Grand District School Board Manager of Planning.<\/p>\n<p>The expansion is most notable in higher growth regions like Guelph, Grand Valley, and Centre Wellington. Locally, the development is expected to span more than just a few years, Angrish adds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese official plans, they are projecting population growth until 2051. So, Upper Grand planning staff have been involved in these reviews. We are aware of this growth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Projected enrollment numbers will lead to an increased need for bussing. That will be monitored as the situation develops as well, Angrish states.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can see from the projected enrolment increases throughout the region that there will be an increased need for bussing,\" Angrish says. \"It will be analyzed as things change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Angrish says the housing market has completely shifted since pre-pandemic, and more low density housing yields more students.<\/p>\n<p>She and other planning staff drafted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ugdsb.ca\/board\/planning\/long-term-accommodation-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Long Term Accommodation Plan<\/a> in late April that is expected to be finalized early in the fall.<\/p>\n<p>Angrish encourages those interested to take a look at the document and provide feedback ahead of its release.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the CICW story below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schools throughout the Upper Grand District School Board are expected to face challenges with capacity in future years as student numbers grow. There is a plan in place to monitor this expansion, according to Ruchika Angrish, Upper Grand District School Board Manager of Planning. The expansion is most notable in higher growth regions like Guelph,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":154920,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,221,21655],"tags":[1454,438,26738,5325,26736,26737,6871,1721],"radio":[1376],"origine":[267,25404,269],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157965"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157965"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158191,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157965\/revisions\/158191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157965"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=157965"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=157965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}