Finance ministers were up to their fiscal trickery last week: cooking the numbers to balance their books while our schools crumble. The feds, which slashed provincial education & health [...]
The misnomer of Grants for Student Needs The general public may have given a collective sigh of relief on March 26 when the Minister of Education Liz Sandals announced that funding for public [...]
Education funding for 2015-16 was announced on March 26, 2015 by the Ministry of Education. Only the Grants for Student Needs (GSN) were released. The Education Program – Other (EPO) [...]
While the Ministry of Education has offered stabilized funding in the face of declining enrollment for 2015-2016, the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) is concerned that [...]
“The Right’s greatest success has been to redefine taxes as a burden” says Alex Himelfarb, former clerk of Canada’s Privy Council: The number one issue for me is inequality. … Austerity at every [...]
Some schools in Ontario will be shut down as the Liberal government makes education funding cuts to help eliminate a $12.5-billion deficit in three years, Education Minister Liz Sandals admitted [...]
September, 2014 Dear School Community Council members, As many of you have noted, the Toronto District School Board has been moving away from public accountability by doing more and more of its [...]