TDSB election results
[for the TCDSB and francophone boards select “Multi-Races” here] Ward 1 (Etobicoke North) — Harpreet Gill https://www.voteforgill.com/ Ward 2 (Etobicoke Centre) — Dan MacLean https://www.electmacleanward2.com/ Ward 3 (Etobicoke-Lakeshore) — Patrick Nunziata https://votepatricknunziata.com/ Ward 4 (Humber River-Black Creek) — Christopher Mammoliti https://www.mammoliti4trustee.ca/ Ward 5 (York Centre) — Alexandra Lulka https://www.votelulka.com/ Ward 6 (York South-Weston) — Chris Tonks https://christonks.com/ Ward 7 (Parkdale-High […]
Make education funding an election issue. On Oct 22nd (and in advance polls) vote for these trustee candidates. Note also: Scarborough Rouge Park (Ward 22) Anu Sriskandarajah
Schools are falling down around their students’ heads
The Toronto District School Board has a $3.4 billion repair budget backlog, which includes some $54 million worth of repairs needed at Central Technical School on Bathurst St. (DAVID COOPER / TORONTO STAR FILE PHOTO) ROSIE DIMANNOStar Columnist Tues., Sept. 4, 2018 At Clinton Street Junior Public School, in the heart of downtown, elementary students play and run with […]
CPE endorses 16 TDSB trustee candidates
TDSB Ward #/Riding # 1 Etobicoke North Ali Mohammed-Ali #2 Etobicoke Centre Shawn Rizvi #4 Humber River Black Creek Matias De Dovitiis #7 Parkdale High Park Robin Pilkey #9 Davenport Spadina Fort York Stephanie Donaldson #10 Toronto Centre University Rosedale Chris Moise #11 Don Valley West Amara Possian #13 Don Valley North Siham Rayale #15 Danforth Jennifer Story #16 […]
Grade 11 student slams Ford’s curriculum rollbacks
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=NPAVa8fi6mk Hundreds of determined students, parents, teachers and community safety organizations joined keynote speaker, Rayne Fisher-Quann, one of two student organizers of the July 21st #MarchforourEducation at Queens Park. Speakers took aim at the broad impact on youth safety of the Ontario Government’s rollback of Health Education and Indigenous curriculum. In just 10 days students […]
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 […]