Toronto school board to stop booking new U.S. travel over border restrictions
TORONTO — Canada’s largest school board says it will stop booking trips to the United States indefinitely in light of the uncertainty surrounding restrictions at the border.
The Toronto District School Board, which serves about 245,000 public school students, says it made the “difficult decision” because it believes students “should not be placed into these situations of potentially being turned away at the border.”
The board says that for now, it will move forward with the 24 U.S. trips that have already been approved, but says the entire group will turn back if any students with appropriate documentation are turned away.
It also says those trips will be cancelled and refunded if the U.S. enacts any rules that would bar certain students from crossing the border.