Thousands of parents kept their kids away from school in Ontario this week because the provincial government has developed the utterly bonkers notion that students should have some information [...]
“…I don’t know why they are trying to close our centre,” said Venus Mawirat, whose 3-year-old son Galen attends APS Daycare at North Preparatory Junior Public School which is facing [...]
Torontoist Explains: Ontario’s Education Funding Formula We walk through the complicated funding allocation for Ontario primary and secondary schools, and what that means for students. BY [...]
Educational workers have become the main target for the provincial government’s austerity agenda. Even before the provincial budget was announced, it had been decided educational workers [...]
It’s been over a week since public high school teachers in Durham went on strike, closing schools for 21,000 students, and no one seems to be able to explain why. “Perhaps someone (either side) [...]
Finance ministers were up to their fiscal trickery last week: cooking the numbers to balance their books while our schools crumble. The feds, which slashed provincial education & health [...]
The current “consultation” on the governance of the TDSB is unprecedented. The appointed panel headed by former mayor Barbara Hall is looking at the governance model for only the [...]
The misnomer of Grants for Student Needs The general public may have given a collective sigh of relief on March 26 when the Minister of Education Liz Sandals announced that funding for public [...]
Here are the initial questions asked online and in community meetings and a sample of answers we have gathered in talking to those wishing to rebuild public education in Toronto. The Hall panel [...]