A new group is calling on the Ford government to press pause on it's planned cuts to public health.
Trustees with the Toronto District School Board voted last night to ask the province to hold off until it can get a better sense of what the cuts might mean for students.
The TDSB also plans to "notify all parents of the funding at-risk for Toronto Public Health programs and the possible impacts that any service reductions will have on students."
The board says more than 208,000 Toronto students participate in breakfast, snack, morning meal and lunch programs each day and the Public Health immunizes about 100,000 students each year for Hepatitis B, Meningococcal disease and Human Papillomavirus.
We learned last week that the province will force municipalities to cover more of the cost for public health.
Right now, the province covers 75% in most cases. By 2021, that's expected to drop to 60 or 70% in some areas and 50% for the city of Toronto.
The city says it'll have to spend about a $1 billion more over 10 years.