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Be bold, Ontario: Shift dollars from health care to education
TheGlobeandMail.com – Opinion/Special Comment – Be bold, Ontario: Shift dollars from health care to education
April 13, 2009. PRESTON MANNING
The most worrisome feature of Ontario’s budget is its continuation of the drastic imbalance between health care and education spending. Out of $109-billion in proposed program spending, almost 40 per cent is committed to health care and only 13 per cent to education.
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Test scores, yes, but… [“school information finder” on the provincial government’s website]
TheStar.com – Opinion/Editorial – Test scores, yes, but…
Apr 12, 2009.
The “school information finder” – a new feature on the provincial government’s website – has caused a stir.
Critics worry that it could “encourage further social polarization.” Defenders argue that parents have a “right to know” how their kid’s school ranks. “If you were to ask parents whether or not they want this information, I know what their answer is,” said Premier Dalton McGuinty.
What is all the fuss about?
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Attention, education shoppers
TheGlobeandMail.com – Opinions – Attention, education shoppers
April 10, 2009. RICK SALUTIN
Capitalism’s last stand? Ontario’s Education Ministry put up a website for parents this week comparing schools based on standardized test results, socio-economic status etc. It included a shopping cart. The ministry removed the cart in response to some fury but maintained the site.
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Don’t hide school rankings
NationalPost.com – Opinion/Edtorial – Don’t hide school rankings
Published: April 08, 2009
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Online tool comparing schools to be yanked
TheStar.com – Ontario/ParentCentral.ca – Online tool comparing schools to be yanked
April 07, 2009. Kristin Rushowy
The province will pull its new online school comparison feature and review the information provided after hearing concerns about the website including such details as families’ socio-economic status and parent education levels.
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Tuition attrition? Reposition
TheGlobeandMail.com – Opinions/SpecialComment – Tuition attrition? Reposition
April 7, 2009. MARGARET WENTE
At Guelph, students are protesting because the university has cut women’s studies and ecology. At the University of Toronto, they’re outraged because the downtown campus is about to charge full-time fees for lighter course loads. York University has just survived a brutal strike by teaching assistants and contract faculty. And as everyone freezes hiring, PhDs have become a glut on the market.
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Ontario budget’s education cuts troubling
TheStar.com – Opinion – Ontario budget’s education cuts troubling
April 06, 2009
Re: Missing pieces in Ontario budget, Editorial March 29
As focus on the Ontario budget centred on the harmonized sales tax, overlooked were troubling cuts to education funding that will prove to be problematic for school boards across the province. The government’s decision to raise school board salaries by up to 12.55 per cent over four years triggered a budget trade-off that comes at the expense of support for students.
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Who goes to university? A clue: Have a dictionary?
TheGlobeandMail.com – Opinions – Who goes to university? A clue: Have a dictionary?
March 28, 2009. JEFFREY SIMPSON
A good old-fashioned dictionary. If you want to know who goes to university – and this is the time of year when prospective students are thinking about fall education possibilities – check whether the family home has a dictionary.
A dictionary is not literally the ticket to university. It’s more like a symbol of what’s going on in the family, and what kind of family the prospective student comes from.
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