Update on Capital Funding – TDSB’s New Policy on Land Severance -Trustee Howard Kaplan Ward 5 The Provincial Government’s decision to freeze capital funding for TDSB put the Board in [...]
Students overcome government-teachers dispute to publish school paper themselves The ongoing dispute between teachers and the Ontario government meant they lost their staff supervisor, their [...]
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 [...]
