TDSB moving to US-style choice?
ref: Board Services Agenda Record Program and School Services Committee March 30, 2011 Agenda Item 8. FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR ELEMENTARY PROGRAMS OF CHOICE TO Programs and School Services Committee 30 March 2011 RECOMMENDATION IT IS RECOMMENDED: 1. That Programs of Choice be approved to open September 2011 in the following schools: A. Boys? Leadership Academy […]
“Province driving school closures”
Get ready, “school closings are coming to a neighbourhood near you”, said Janet Bojti, a respected adult learning instructor, neighbourhood organizer and member of CPE’s Save Our School’s committee, in an interview on CKLN 88.1 FM’s “Word of Mouth” last night. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p_WbQrL44g&feature=player_embedded Some of the city’s most disadvantaged communities are facing the prospect of school closings next […]
Taxes for better education
“An increased willingness among the majority to pay more taxes for education”, says a study on public attitudes toward education in Ontario* Excerpts: Public views of Ontario schools have markedly improved since the years of discord in the late 1990s and early years of the 21st century. Educational Finance Support for increased funding of all levels […]
An alternative budget
It’s a budget that could give Finance Minister Jim Flaherty nightmares, but a left-leaning think tank says it’s one that would serve the country well coming out of recession. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is unveiling its annual “alternative federal budget” in Ottawa on Tuesday, a 38-page document that shows what fiscal policy […]
TO-Centre schools could close
School closing review dates* have been posted by the school board (tdsb.on.ca ) Mark your calendars, forward widely and sharpen your pencils: there are schools to save in one of the city’s most vulnerable commiunities! There are nine schools which are up for “review”. Together they serve the poorest neighbourhoods in downtown Toronto. And […]
Disappointing board response to democracy
Toronto March 10th Parents and community members from Northwest Toronto are discouraged and disappointed at the treatment their proposal for the democratization of the Rexdale ARC received at the hands of school board trustees in the Board meeting of March 9th. Their proposal, delivered to a trustee committee last week was incorporated into Mr. Daryl Sage’s […]
Rich schools get richer thanks to private cash
Two public and two Catholic high schools in Greater Toronto are bringing in more than a million dollars a year through student fees, private revenue and fundraising, with dozens more each taking in at least half a million dollars. By contrast, other similar-sized schools report a fraction of that – one just $283,000 – raising […]