Ontario’s future?
Apparently, Walmart’s owners, the Waltons, aren’t satisfied with owning the largest low-wage employer in the country and being the richest family in the world. They’ve also been working (and by “working” we mean “spending”) overtime to undermine the K-12 education system across the US. Is this what Wynne’s advisors have in mind for Ontario? Read on… A […]
Greetings Minister!
Ontario’s Liberals were greeted by our billboard in Collingwood this weekend as they gathered for their AGM.
school-based daycares fighting eviction!
“…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 eviction in June. The centre, near Spadina and Eglinton Aves., is among at least three school-based daycares in the city that are being squeezed for […]
The School As Community Hub
There’s been much chatter about schools as community hubs this month. But what does this actually involve? Here is one of the more comprehensive studies on the subject edited by David Clandsfield and George Martel. The School As Community Hub – Beyond Education’s Iron Cage. http://www.policyalternatives.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/publications/ourselves/docs/OSOS_Summer10_Preview.pdf
School Closures flyer: download here
School Closures – 2015 04 22 – WEB
“More delays for community hubs as Liberals force school closures”
The latest Government panel appointment “announcement won’t distract from the Liberals’ sorry record of failing to support community hubs – and won’t stop half-a-billion dollars in planned cuts to classrooms” states MPP Lisa Gretzky, the NDP’s new Education Critic. “As usual, the Liberals are saying one thing but doing the exact opposite. That’s why the new […]
Low-enrolment schools=more than #s
The Toronto public school board is quietly shutting down Eastern Commerce and Nelson Boylen, the two most under-enrolled schools in the city even though neither has been part of a required area review. Not small schools — more like big families. While they have the lowest enrolment of all high schools in Toronto, students and […]
The Great School Rip Off
The Great School Rip Off Ontario has stepped up the pressure on the Toronto District School Board to close and sell more schools. In the ninth of thirteen directives handed down by the Ministry on January 15th 2015, the province flexed its majority muscle, ordering the TDSB to submit a 3 year capital plan, prepare […]
The schools under review
1) Conduct the following Pupil Accommodation Review Committees (ARCs) over the next three years. Cluster reviews in 2014-15 involving: Nelson Boylen CI, Downsview SS and Weston CI; Sir Robert Borden BTI, West Hill CI and Sir Wilfrid Laurier CI; Danforth Collegiate and Technical Institute, East York Alternative Secondary School, East York CI, Eastdale […]
Pause School Closures
City Councillors and TDSB Trustees stand together to insist that Province puts a pause on school closures in mid-day press conference at Toronto City Hall today.