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Thousands of foster kids to get RESPs
TheStar.com – parentcentral.com – Thousands of foster kids to get RESPs
Laurie Monsebraaten, April 23, 2008
Queen’s Park is ordering Ontario children’s aid societies to set up registered education savings plans for all kids in foster care younger than age 6 receiving Ottawa’s $100-a-month child-care benefit.
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Enrolment boom has universities looking at cuts
TheStar.com – Ontario – Enrolment boom has universities looking at cuts
April 16, 2008
THE CANADIAN PRESS
Ontario universities say skyrocketing enrolment is forcing many of them to look at cutting courses and not replacing retiring faculty.
Paul Genest, with the Council of Ontario Universities, says the increase in student enrolment has exceeded expectations.
Genest says the province has helped universities meet their capital needs but they still need help on the operating side.
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30,000 adults could lose ESL classes
TheStar.com – parentcentral.ca – 30,000 adults could lose ESL classes
Francine Kopun
April 17, 2008
English as a Second Language classes for 30,000 adults could be on the chopping block if the recommendations of a Toronto District School Board report are adopted, worried administrators said yesterday.
“We are helping all kinds of newcomers, including refugee claimants, landed immigrants and even citizens who have been here for some time – they are all in dire need of our service,” said Jinjiang Du, site manager at the Bickford Centre.
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Leadership on literacy
NationalPost.com – opinion – Leadership on literacy
Published: Monday, April 14, 2008
Kelly Lamrock And Shirley Bond,
Canada’s Education Ministers have come together to take a collective stand and provide leadership on literacy. That begins with being forthright about the issue: Millions of adult Canadians struggle with low literacy levels. People with literacy challenges live in every community in Canada. In fact, many Canadians have trouble with everyday reading and writing tasks such as reading a prescription or understanding a bus schedule.
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Too many empty moral victories
TheStar.com – comment – Too many empty moral victories
April 09, 2008
Carol Goar
My feminist credentials falter whenever I confront the issue of child care.
For 30 years, the women’s movement has been fighting for a universal system of preschool care and learning. Yet it has disparaged every federal attempt to put affordable child care within the reach of working parents, claiming there was too much commercial involvement, too little public money and too great a danger of low-quality care.
Today, one in six Canadian children has access to regulated daycare.
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Poor kids lag badly in school, study finds
TheStar.com – GTA – Poor kids lag badly in school, study finds: Data analysis method urged for all provinces
April 07, 2008
Kristin Rushowy, Education Reporter
Poor students are doing far worse on standardized tests than the results themselves indicate, says a groundbreaking study that links children’s birth and health records to education data.
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Four Educational Myths that Stymie Social Justice
Canadian Research Institute for Social Policy (CRISP)
CRISP Facts – March 2008
Four Educational Myths that Stymie Social Justice
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Despite Flaherty, Ontario not alone
TheStar.com – comment/editorial – Despite Flaherty, Ontario not alone
March 27, 2008
Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty and his provincial Conservative cousins would have people believe that Ontario is an isolated island in a sea of tax-cutting provinces, and that’s where its problems start and stop.
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Budget Fails to Address Quality Crisis in Post Secondary Education in Ontario
Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA) – Media Release
Budget Fails to Address Quality Crisis in Post Secondary Education in Ontario: Investing in buildings will not remedy the problems facing Ontario universities
For Immediate Release March 25, 2008
TORONTO– “This budget missed the point. New buildings are not enough. For students to receive the quality education they deserve, sufficient academic staff need to be hired,†said Professor Brian E. Brown, President of the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA).
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