Cecil Facer teachers moved to other Sudbury schools

There are now four fewer teachers at the Cecil Facer Youth Detention Centre in Sudbury.

Norm Blaseg, director of education for the Rainbow District School Board, said the four positions were redistributed to other schools in the city after the province cut 16 beds from 48 to 32 at Cecil Facer.

However, Blaseg said the quality of education for the teenage boys incarcerated there will not suffer.

"There are still nine teachers on site," he said. "So there's adequate staff there to educate to 32 beds."

Blaseg said he doesn't expect that the board will have to reassign any other teachers from the school.

"It's really unusual that we would take the measures that we have," he added. "But then again, it's really unusual that we reduce the number of beds in kind of mid-stream, so we don't anticipate that this will happen again."

Blaseg said nobody lost their job in the shuffle.