Callout to Trustee candidates.
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Ending cops-in-schools right thing to do
The Toronto District School Board’s decision to opt out of the School Resource Officer program has been interpreted by some as anti-police. That is completely false, writes board chair Robin Pilkey. The Toronto District School Board’s recent decision to end the School Resource Officer (SRO) program has prompted some concerns and questions. As chair of the […]
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 […]
Keep Vaughan Road Academy
Community to ask TDSB to stop plans to close Vaughan Road Academy Public will weigh in on series of school reorganizations and possible closures causing anxiety for kids and parents Photo: Sue Sneyd and her two boys Malcolm, 8, left, and Oscar, 10, are among those eager to keep Vaughan Road Academy open. Sneyd’s […]
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 […]
Taxation powers could fix schools
Of all the duties that educational leaders and policy-makers have, ensuring that schools are safe is arguably the most important. But it looks like that is not happening in our city. Documents from the provincial government state that 56 per cent of schools in the Toronto District School Board are in “critical” or “poor” condition. […]
Neethan Shan elected Trustee
Neethan Shan swept to victory Monday night, January 25th, when 55% of voters in Scarborough Rouge River supported him as a new TDSB trustee in a ward 21 by-election. Neethan Shan, the CPE-endorsed candidate will be an impressive addition to the school board and to public education in this city. See the final results here The runner up […]
Schools crumbling amid $1B repair shortfall
A quarter of TDSB schools are in critical condition, according to documents obtained by the Toronto Star. (20/01/16) see full article: http://m.thestar.com/#/article/news/gta/2016/01/20/schools-crumbling-amid-1b-repair-shortfall.html CPE comment in letter to Star editor: To ensure a healthy learning environment, let alone a healthy democracy, funding of school boards such as the TDSB must be based on the actual needs […]
Hall’s 20 recommendations
The Barbara Hall panel report on TDSB governance contains these 20 recommendations: Recommendation 1: That the Minister of Education immediately take steps to appoint a supervisor to work collaboratively with the board of trustees, the director of education and senior staff to implement the recommendations of this report. Recommendations Regarding the Board of Trustees Recommendation […]
Hall report on TDSB governance
The Toronto District School Board should be placed under provincial supervision and then broken up if it can’t improve serious cultural problems after a year, former mayor Barbara Hall recommended in an advisory report. The board, Canada’s largest, can’t help itself without “external support,” Ms. Hall wrote in her report to the province, which was […]