Board questions funding
School board has questions about fundingNorth Bay Nugget (ON) 15 Aug 2007 Jennifer Hamilton-McCharles The chairman of the Near North District School Board spent Tuesday with budget officials and staff crunching numbers and discussing a $2.1-million funding boost the board wasn't anticipating. The area's four school boards will share $3.5 million of […]
doesn’t go far enough
New funding for public and separate schools Chatham Daily News (ON) 15 Aug 2007 BOB BOUGHNER The Lambton Kent and St. Clair Catholic District School Boards will receive close to $3 million in new funding from the provincial government. It's part of close to $10 million in additional money announced Monday for school […]
political favour?
Schools get $182M boost The Toronto Sun 15 Aug 2007 BY ANTONELLA ARTUSO, QUEEN'S PARK BUREAU CHIEF A surprise $182-million boost to education spending for the coming school year announced by Premier Dalton McGuinty will pay for more vice-principals, teachers and other pressing school needs. McGuinty said his government is prepared to spend a […]
too little to late
Teachers applaud education cash but say there must be moreHamilton Spectator Wed 15 Aug 2007 Sharon Boase The Hamilton Spectator Union leaders welcome the province's move to pour an additional $309 million into Ontario's classrooms but say that it's too little, too late. "This has to go across the whole province, to secondary and separate […]
School Boards Funded
August 14, 2007 released to public at 11:11am MCGUINTY GOVERNMENT STRENGTHENS SCHOOL FUNDING FORMULA BRAMPTON — The McGuinty government is strengthening public education and fixing the funding formula by investing an additional $309 million in public funding over the next two years, Premier Dalton McGuinty announced today. "Since taking office, we have been […]
Be wary of proposed vote system, group says
Organization warns that change to election method would give party backroomers too much power Rob Ferguson Queen's Park Bureau The proposed change to the way MPPs are elected in Ontario would give "unprecedented power" to backroom strategists who control political parties, says a new group urging voters to keep the current system in place. Voters […]
Tax cuts at root of budget crisis
CAROL GOARThe Toronto Star The first alarm bells went off 12 years ago. But they were faint and distant. In New Jersey, one of the richest states in the U.S., municipal property taxes were rising rapidly. Mayors were complaining bitterly. Governor Christine Todd Whitman was a year into her aggressive tax-slashing program. Her aim was […]
Sounding the Alarm – Budget Commentary
Newsletter, Toronto Education Workers, CUPE June 15, 07 Our Jobs, Pools & Schools Again Under Attack This Monday, June 11th, I circulated an email entitled “Sound the Alarm “ in which I was able to spread some very disturbing (and potentially damaging) information through the extensive e-mail list of Campaign for Public Education. Once again, […]
Coalition backs call for Manners inquest
From cbc.ca Community groups and individuals have joined forces with the family of a Toronto teen fatally shot inside his high school to ramp up pressure on the province to call a coroner's inquest into the boy's death. Jordan Manners, 15, died last month after he was shot in a hallway of C.W. Jefferys C.I. Two 17-year-olds have been […]
Don’t Be Cruel to Your Pool
Torontoist.ca Health Canada reports that over half of Canadian kids aged five to 17 are not physically active enough for optimal growth and development. The number of overweight boys ballooned from 15 percent in 1981 to 35.4 percent in 1996; the percentage of overweight girls expanded from 15 percent to 29.2 percent. In less than […]