Nova Scotia lacks planning for schools, risk plans for infrastructure:auditor
HALIFAX — Nova Scotia approved a new $21 million, Halifax-area school despite evidence it wasn’t needed, the auditor general said Wednesday in a report that slammed the province for poor planning and a lack of transparency.
“No one in government can appropriately explain why this school is being built,” Michael Pickup says in his November report.
Pickup says there was evidence the Education Department had concerns about the impact a new high school approved for Eastern Passage would have on existing schools in the area.
The audit cites a 2010 report for the Halifax Regional School Board that indicated there was no need for the school, and a 2007 report that suggested one fewer high school would be feasible for the area within 10 years.