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Where’s the money for schools?

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Feb 23 2010
The province’s $32 billion ReNew Ontario fund, launched in 2005, did receive $5 billion in federal funding, but that program has expired and Ontario school boards are already being told that the provincial government’s Good Places to Learn capital program will not be renewed.

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Boards lobby for increased special-ed funding

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Feb. 18, 2010.
Overall enrolment at the province’s largest board, the Toronto District School Board, has declined 5.4 per cent over the past four years, while the number of students with special needs has increased by 16 per cent.
This imbalance has created a special-education budget shortfall, staff say, partly because much of the province’s funding is based on total head count.
The TDSB says it operates its special education programs at a $20-million loss, which would more than cover the $17-million projected deficit in its budget for the 2009-2010 school year.

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Those who read well at 15 succeed

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

Feb. 13, 2010.
There’s no greater predictor of a child’s future educational success than reading proficiency…
These results clearly confirm the necessity of a basic education focused on foundational skills. They also bolster the egalitarian credentials of Canada’s education system, as learned traits, such as reading and studying, overwhelm inherited factors, such as parental income.

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Canada’s undervalued universities


Monday, February 8th, 2010

TheGlobeandMail.com – globecampus.ca/blogs
February 5, 2010. Alex Usher

…there is a fundamental mismatch between academics’ definition of quality and the reasons that governments invest in higher education.
And this mismatch has a lot to do with governments’ continual frustration in trying to understand what it is, exactly, that institutions do with all that public money they’re given.

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Sensible changes for kindergarten

Sunday, January 17th, 2010

TheStar.com – Opinion/Editorial – Sensible changes for kindergarten
Published On Sun Jan 17 2010

Our education bureaucracy is set in its ways. So it takes political fortitude to rethink how we educate 4- and 5-year-olds and require schools to meet the needs of modern families. It takes even more to do it when it means introducing a $1.5 billion program while the province is facing a huge deficit.

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Boards prep for kindergarten rush

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

TheStar.com – Ontario/Parentcentral.ca – Boards prep for kindergarten rush
January 13, 2010.   Kristin Rushowy, Rob Ferguson

Let the registrations begin.

Now that boards across the province know which schools will offer full-day kindergarten this fall, some are turning their attention to how to handle the expected surge in demand for the new program that could save working parents thousands a year in daycare costs for their 4- and 5-year-olds.

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Conservatives kill funding for learning organization

Friday, January 8th, 2010

TheGlobeandMail.com – News – Conservatives kill funding for learning organization: Canadian Council on Learning informed that it won’t receive any more money, plans to continue operations
Published on Friday, Jan. 08, 2010.   Jill Mahoney

The federal government will end funding for the Canadian Council on Learning, an organization established by a previous Liberal government to promote lifelong learning.

CCL told staff Thursday that it had received notice from Human Resources and Social Development that it would not receive federal support past March 31.

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Underfunding shortchanges students

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

TheStar.com – Opinions/Comment – Underfunding shortchanges students
Mark Langer President of the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations
Published On Wed Dec 02 2009

In the recently published book, Academic Transformation: The Forces Shaping Higher Education in Ontario, co-authored by Ian D. Clark, Greg Moran, Michael L. Skolnik and David Trick, the authors argue that the current model of university education in Ontario is “unsustainable.”

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Do not abandon early learning idea

Sunday, November 29th, 2009

TheStar.com – Opinion/editorial – Do not abandon early learning idea
Published On Sun Nov 29 2009

Critics of Ontario’s plan to offer full-day kindergarten to all 4- and 5-year-olds have landed on the beguiling idea that we’d all be better off if the government simply gave parents the money instead.

“Parents could receive a minimum of $9,199 dollars per child, annually,” argues the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada, a group dedicated to supporting “mom-and-dad marriage and family life.”

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Bridging prosperity gap

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

TheStar.com – Opinion/editorial – Bridging prosperity gap
Published On Wed Nov 25 2009

Ontario’s economy may still be mired in a recession, or it may be rebounding. As a third option, there may be a W-shaped recovery underway, with a rebound followed by another fall back into recession. It all depends on which economist one asks.

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