SHAMELESS TORONTO DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD

Even as the Toronto District School Board was complaining about school funding changes, board officials were going ahead with a contract to spend more than $5 million buying new high-end iPhone handsets.

 The RFP showed the board was looking to purchase more than 4,000 brand new iPhones for administrators, the vast majority of them the high-end iPhone XS or XS Max valued at as much as $1,519 per handset.

The contract proposal was only cancelled last Thursday.

That was after the school board had already talked about laying off teachers and warned that classes would have to be cut.