Repair backlog in every school board
Ontario’s flawed system of public education funding has allowed our schools to accumulate a dangerous level of disrepair.
Crumbling schools consume principals
Ontario’s crumbling school buildings pull principal’s away from their job of “professional learning & improving the instructional program.” Instead, “22 % of elementary principals…reported ‘managing facilities’ was the most-consuming task they handle.” http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontatrio-education-report-mental-health-special-1.4720766
A Plan for School Disrepair?
The PC “Plan for the People” makes no mention of addressing the $15.9-billion of disrepair that plagues Ontario’s publicly funded schools. Will Doug Ford’s PC government protect the now established annual level of funding for ongoing school repairs and ensure that a minimum of $1.4-billion per year goes to Ontario’s school boards for school repairs? […]
47% of newly-elected MPPs: “Fix schools!”
Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative party won a resounding majority in Thursday’s election after promising to restore ‘respect for the taxpayer’. Too bad for the 2-million children who attend Ontario’s publicly funded schools that no respect was promised to them. No mention was made in the PC education platform about the state of Ontario’s schools and […]
Ford in. Sex Ed out.
Alongside no more sex-ed in school classrooms, cheaper gas, cheaper electricity, an end to carbon cap-and-trade measures and tax cuts for almost everyone, the big components of Premier-elect Doug Ford’s plan include cuts to the corporate tax rate, the lifting of restrictions on resource development in Ontario’s north, and the cancellation of a planned minimum […]
Broadcaster blasts proposal to axe Sex Ed
“ Ford is telling us a lot by prioritizing a repeal of the sex ed curriculum. This is how he reads the room in the wake of the first out lesbian premier in Canadian history. This is not about better policy or better education, it’s patriarchy plain and simple.” -Desmond Cole, June 10, 2018