Danforth candidates debate repairs
Two fixOntarioschools Pledge signers [Li Koo & Peter Tabuns) now in Toronto Danforth. An all-candidates meeting [the PC demurred] being interviewed by the Globe&Mail’s Alex Bozikovic (see his Friday article on conservation and the $15.9 billion school repairs backlog across Ontario). This morning at the Architectural Conservancy Ontario symposium.
Globe & Mail questions 2 Danforth candidates
Must be saved from ruinous underfunding of ON’s school system
Our heritage of schools built with our grandparents’ hard earned cash, along with caring community businesses (via a 50% tax contribution) must be saved from ruinous underfunding of Ontario’s public education system. —– City Adult Learning Centre.
national papers get onside to fix Ontario schools
Repair backlog puts not just Ontario’s aging schools at risk, but also our unique heritage, experts warn “Perfect storm” of inadequate provincial funding, politics and old buildings is behind a repair backlog that has tripled in the past 15 years to a whopping $16 billion for Ontario schools, symposium hears. The average age of the […]
Candidates sign Pledge to fixOntarioschools
MPP candidate for Scarborough Rouge Park, Felicia Samuel has pledged to fixOntarioschools! Have the MPP candidates in YOUR riding signed a Pledge yet? Download Pledge forms and the MPP Info flyer here. Then go along to each of their offices and find out. Consult our “fixourschools campaign guide ” Visit the candidate offices along […]
Schools in disrepair: why?
The parent campaign, Fix Our Schools, has a series of answers: “We are adrift in a sea of schools that are in appalling shape. The majority of Ontario schools simply cannot be considered buildings that provide optimum learning conditions. Who let it get this far? “You might be surprised to hear that your property taxes […]
school shortage in major Ontario cities
Provincial funding restrictions have led a number of Ontario’s 72 school boards short of much needed schools. By SALMAAN FAROOQUI The Canadian Press TORONTO—Serina Manek has been living in Leslieville for seven years and has watched it go from a rough-around-the-edges area in Toronto’s east end, to one of the city’s most desirable […]
School Closures put Communities at Risk
In Ontario, over 2,000 schools have been permanently shuttered since 1990. Right now, 600 schools are under review for potential closure; 500 of these schools are located in rural communities and small towns. This is an important and high-profile issue for small towns and rural communities that are already stressed by the local impacts of a […]
Education Charter – a vision for Ontario
To ensure a healthy democracy we as a society need an educated electorate. A quality public education is the right of every Ontarian. To ensure that all residents of Ontario receive a quality public education that meets their individual needs and serve them well in later life, the following are essential: Funding of school boards […]
Optional attendance kills Vaughan Road Academy
Race and class key to school’s demise. How odd it is to walk down these empty hallways. For the past 30 years, I’ve only visited them in dreams – and nightmares. Vaughan Road Academy, my old high school, is dying. In a month’s time it will be dead, the victim of declining enrolment (there are 200 […]