Trustees training
York Region trustees to undergo training in wake of scathing report York Region District School Board approves plan for trustees to get training in governance and equity issues. The York Region District School Board has approved a plan for extensive equity and governance training for trustees and senior staff to meet the deadlines for the […]
The class divide
The TDSB has its “have” and “have not” schools. But compared with fundraising among its GTA counterparts, the Toronto board is a pauper. Its average of $118 per elementary student in school-generated funds was the lowest of the 10 English-language boards in the Greater Toronto Area, according to 2012-13 data obtained by the Star through […]
$500m cut to education budget
Some schools in Ontario will be shut down as the Liberal government makes education funding cuts to help eliminate a $12.5-billion deficit in three years, Education Minister Liz Sandals admitted Tuesday. The planned cuts are included in the government’s 2015-16 education funding guide, which was obtained by the New Democrats and calls for permanent savings […]
Toronto still not signed-off
The deadline is fast approaching for the more than half of school boards in the province that have still not signed-off on a deal reached between the Liberal government and the union representing high school teachers earlier this year. Only eight of the more than 40 high school boards in the province have implemented the […]
Globe goes after TDSB’s labour costs
(photo credit: Peter Power/The Globe and Mail 2013.04.10) Toronto Interactive See which Toronto schools have ballooning labour costs Stuart A. Thompson and Kate Hammer The Globe and Mail Wednesday, Apr. 10 2013, 1:05 PM EDT The Toronto District School Board is the largest school board in […]
Pop up clubs for life-long learning begs the question: When do we RE-FUND education in the public interest?
* Toronto’s four publicly funded school boards would be wise to re-examine the importance of their remaining facilities for hands-on “shop” and technical training, if recent research by Denise Balkissoon is to be believed. This past weekend’s Globe & Mail reports that Toronto, already awash in pop-up shops (to the delight of consumers intent on retail […]
$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 […]
Where’s Dalton?
Jan. 04 2013, 11:20 AM EST Dalton McGuinty has been Premier of Ontario for long enough, has put his family through enough sacrifice, that it’s normally hard to begrudge him a day off. But on this day, it just didn’t feel right. You just have to take ownership of some decisions, right or wrong. And one […]
Education “too important to arbitrarily overhaul just to save a buck.”
.Kayla Smith, a Grade 12 student at Bramalea Secondary School [seen here addressing Saturday’s rally], isn’t happy about losing her extra-curricular activities but she feels protesting the provincial government’s new legislation, Bill 115: Putting Students First Act, is more important. Smith was at the forefront of a demonstration by Bramalea students on the lawn of Queen’s Park on […]
1,300 students sign up for walkout
Ontario teachers mistreated, organizer claims More than 1,300 high school students in the local public board are indicating they’ll walk out of classes Wednesday to protest how their teachers are being treated by the McGuinty government. “With the legislation that they introduced, they basically took the teacher’s right to strike away so that they would […]