EAs threatened by Ford’s cuts
Educational Assistants are key to our children’s well being in Ontario’s schools.
huge program cuts from freeze in staff hiring
Ford government recommends Ontario school boards freeze hiring ahead of upcoming budget Memo to school boards asks them to ‘exercise prudence in making hiring decisions’ The provincial government has recommended that Ontario school boards implement a hiring freeze until the details of the upcoming budget are solidified. “I am writing to you today to recommend […]
Santa Ford naughty NOT nice
Late on a Friday as seasonal festivities converge, Ontario’s Education Ministry grants were cancelled. Included: tutors in the classroom, student success leaders for racialized students, Indigenous-focused collaborative inquiry, support for daily physical activity for elementary and secondary students, as well as a program that is for “ensuring equitable access to post-secondary education.”
Submit today: MOE’s funding survey!
Dear Deputy Minister Naylor, • Efficient Price Setting First and foremost it is important that GSNs prioritize a school system that is publicly-funded based on student need. • Outcomes-Based Funding An outcomes-based model of funding must be tied to a Students’ Bill of Rights rather than a Parents’ Bill of Rights. • Accountability and Value-for-Money E Extensive research on North America’s […]
your input on funding by Friday
Campaign for Public Education since 2002 We INSIST on needs-based funding for Ontario publicly-funded schools, daycares and adult education. Dear friends of public education, We need your help. This is urgent. Each year the Ministry of Education consults on education funding to find out what people would like to see as priorities for school board […]
Curriculum rollback discriminatory
Elementary teachers voice their concern about the sex-ed curriculum rollback during a rally at Queen’s Park in August. (EDUARDO LIMA / STAR METRO FILE PHOTO) Student across Ontario staged a walkout on Sept. 21 to protest Premier Doug Ford’s rollback of the sex-ed curriculum. Students at Western Technical Commercial School are shown during a rally outside their […]
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 […]
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