Educational workers have become the main target for the provincial government’s austerity agenda. Even before the provincial budget was announced, it had been decided educational workers [...]
It’s been over a week since public high school teachers in Durham went on strike, closing schools for 21,000 students, and no one seems to be able to explain why. “Perhaps someone (either side) [...]
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 current “consultation” on the governance of the TDSB is unprecedented. The appointed panel headed by former mayor Barbara Hall is looking at the governance model for only the [...]
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 [...]
Here are the initial questions asked online and in community meetings and a sample of answers we have gathered in talking to those wishing to rebuild public education in Toronto. The Hall panel [...]
Join teachers, parents, community for an information picket in conjunction with the North York West Consultation on the TDSB. Tues May 19, 6-7pm Lawrence Heights Community Centre. Let’s [...]
Former Toronto mayor Barbara Hall will chair an expert panel that will advise the TDSB on ways of improving its governance structure. (photo: CBC) Hall told reporters that the panel members had [...]
There’s been much chatter about schools as community hubs this month. But what does this actually involve? Here is one of the more comprehensive studies on the subject edited by David [...]
