Schooling for Life – Dr Dale E Shuttleworth
During the first decade of the twenty-first century, schools and communities find themselves struggling with concerns of youth violence, child poverty, and race relations in an economy mired in recession. in Schooling for Life, esteemed community educator Dale e. shuttleworth brings his rich experiences as a teacher, principal, school superintendant, policy writer, community development worker, social entrepreneur, and university course director to a discussion […]
Save our Community
Chatsworth Drive is lined with lawn signs as are streets throughout the John Wanless Public School area. Check out the soswanless.com website This community is up and ready to take on several levels of government to protect their community during what’s likely to be a tough fight ahead with boundary changes on the horizon. […]
$27m in staff cuts on the table tonight
Those not in the house (5050 Yonge St) might like to follow the recast motion via live streaming; just click here: tdsb.on.ca Now 3 hours from where they started at 7:30pm, the school board trustees recessed until 10:30pm They will be back then to the point of the agenda where the agenda item started as the board […]
Hudak’s trial balloon
Ontario PC leader, Tim Hudak, last month floated a trial balloon on public education, his party’s “white paper” entitled PREPARING STUDENTS FOR THE CHALLENGES OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY. Here is the paper’s conclusion. Please comment on it below. It’s time to move our schools to the next level, to give our children the skills […]
No end to deep freeze @TDSB
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 an difficult position. Several schools in the city are severely overcrowded and had begun construction projects to relieve the congestion. With funding frozen, these projects […]
Could your kids afford this?
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 funding, and were blocked from meeting in the school’s classrooms, but a group of students at North Toronto Collegiate managed to beat the odds to publish the January edition of […]
Graduating students are IDLE NO MORE
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. She’s the first of her family to finish high school, the first to go […]
Weigh in on governance debate here:
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 a monthly assembly of groups and organizations which, for over a decade has run joint campaigns under the title of the CAMPAIGN FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION. CPE’s own 10 Point Program insists that parents, […]
Globe disses TDSB
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 for major change at the country’s largest school board. CREDIT BELOW “Toronto in early 2013 finds itself facing a double crisis of governance. The first, of course, is at City […]
“sour” trustees?
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 scrutiny from the provincial government, which sent in consultants this week to help fix things. And, oh, its elementary-school teachers, like their colleagues around the province, are […]