Two city councillors have penned an open letter to east-end parents about the importance of protecting local schools. Ward 30 (Toronto-Danforth) Councillor Paula Fletcher and Ward 31 [...]
Schools are at the heart of most communities and to close them based on budget constraints is to rip at the fabric of neighbourhoods. Closing schools is not the right response to declining [...]
When discussing amalgamation of schools, it is important to know which size schools are able to best serve various communities. Studies are favouring smaller, rather than the larger schools [...]
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 [...]
