January 30, 2015 For Immediate Release Toronto, Friday January 30, 2015 – The Ontario Government is cutting the provincial education budget by $500,000 (a half billion dollars) and then [...]
With 130 “underutilized” Toronto schools on a list for possible closure, critics say the province’s method for determining whether they are at capacity fails to capture the reality in many of the [...]
Is a school half full or half empty? That depends on how you measure. As the Toronto District School Board scrambles to name schools that are less than two-thirds full by Queen’s Park’s [...]
TDSB trustees are challenging key aspects of the Minister of education directives. “Trustee Chris Tonks said agreeing to give up their assistants is “asinine. We’re eating ourselves alive [...]
TDSB staff published a list Jan 28th of 130 schools (many in active use as daycares and adult education centres) which are deemed underutilized when measured by the extremely limited Ontario [...]
School sales activist, Janet Bojti, addressed TDSB Monday on behalf of CPE. “I’m a retired school board worker. I taught ESL to adult students at the former Toronto Board of Education and [...]
The Urban Alliance on Race Relations decries “the relentless pressure to close schools and sell school properties” Sharon Simpson (seen with former Toronto school trustee, Tam [...]
“The province may want to clip their wings, but the public doesn’t appear to agree” [Star writer, Kristin Rushowy reports]. “At a marathon consultation meeting Monday night with [...]
The recent Review of the TDSB by Margaret Wilson and the consequent directions from Education Minister Liz Sandals are troubling to say the least. There is no doubt that the intervention by the [...]
