So why is it taking off now and not five or 10 years ago? A critical mass of educated young people. Erica Lee is a 22-year-old Cree woman raised by a single mother in a rough part of town. [...]
Errol Young, photographer, former school trustee, community activist and online education commentator He represents community interests in the ongoing battles to keep public education public at [...]
The TDSB is “dysfunctional” and in the midst of a “governance crisis”. So says Canada’s generally centre-right but influential Globe & Mail. The paper calls [...]
It has been a thoroughly rotten week for the Toronto District School Board. Its much-admired education director, Chris Spence, has been caught plagiarizing. Its fiscal management is under [...]
Jan. 04 2013, 11:20 AM EST Dalton McGuinty has been Premier of Ontario for long enough, has put his family through enough sacrifice, that it’s normally hard to begrudge him a day off. But on [...]
10:45pm Jan. 04 2013, The same day Ontario Education Minister Laurel Broten was preaching restraint as she imposed a tough new deal on teachers, she quietly renewed a contract with a [...]
This Friday at 4pm targeting Education Minister Laurel Broten’s Constituency Office 701 Evans Avenue Etobicoke. Parents, teachers, 44oo education workers, students and community from [...]
GIVE ALL OUR STUDENTS WHAT THEY NEED TO SUCCEED Following the 1998 amalgamation of school boards, Trustees lost the ability to determine local needs and to tax in order to fund them. Prior to [...]
News from Monday's Board Organizational Meeting. Chris Bolton, Trustee for Ward 10, was acclaimed by Trustees as the Chair of the Toronto District School Board during the annual Organizational [...]
On Monday afternoon, Dec 3, 2012 several 100s of elementary teachers, parents and community allies gathered at 5050 Yonge St in Toronto and gave the TDSB an F for its handling of Bill 115 and [...]
