Posts Tagged ‘Education’
Wait for core Ontario autism services tops five years: advocates
Friday, October 31st, 2025
Families starting to receive funding now to pay for core therapies including applied behaviour analysis, speech language pathology and occupational therapy are people who registered for the program five years ago… more than 84,000 children are registered in the Ontario Autism Program to seek autism services and 19,600 of them are receiving funding to access core services… Less than one quarter of children registered for the Ontario Autism Program have been given access to the therapy that they were promised
Tags: disabilities, Education, jurisdiction, mental Health
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It’s not just penny-pinching premiers that teachers are up against
Friday, October 31st, 2025
When teachers call for reduced class sizes, more support and better teaching conditions — better learning conditions — they’re not being self-serving. They’re thinking about every kid in every classroom. They’re thinking about the collective future we want those kids to create. Too bad the politics of narrow ignorance keeps getting in the way.
Tags: budget, Education, ideology, jurisdiction, standard of living
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Ontario’s colleges were founded to serve local and regional needs — have we forgotten that?
Tuesday, October 7th, 2025
By the late 1980s… per-student funding had already fallen by roughly one-third. The trend accelerated in 1995 when $120 million was cut… Davis’s legacy is being dismantled by chronic underfunding. The future of our colleges depends on renewal. We must reclaim these values and call on our federal and provincial leaders to support a truly public system of higher education that serves the communities it was created to serve.
Tags: budget, Education, ideology, jurisdiction
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Reconciliation includes recognizing Residential Schools are not the only colonial atrocity
Wednesday, October 1st, 2025
… Residential Schools were one part of a much larger colonial strategy to assimilate Indigenous Peoples and erase Indigenous cultures, languages, traditions, practices and governance systems… consider learning even more about the many other tactics. This way, we can acknowledge past harms, work to address current realities and look to foster meaningful engagements with Indigenous communities.
Tags: Education, Health, Indigenous, jurisdiction, rights, standard of living
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OPSEU/SEFPO sounds alarm on accelerated agenda to gut public education through Ford’s $2.5 billion unaccountable spending spree via the Skills Development Fund
Friday, September 19th, 2025
… if our public college system hemorrhaging jobs while shutting down hundreds upon hundreds of programs, then where are our public dollars going? The answer… is a government-led agenda to systematically defund Ontario colleges, while committing $2.5 billion in public dollars since 2020 to Ontario’s “Skills Development Fund,” a provincial funding envelope designed to cultivate non-college training programs.
Tags: budget, economy, Education, privatization
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Doug Ford is Trying to Control How Universities Operate
Thursday, September 18th, 2025
Instead of discussing more funding, when parliament is back in session in October, the debate around Bill 33 will resume. Since June, groups representing students, faculty, and administrators have been submitting responses to the bill – every single one… criticizes the proposed legislation, from raising serious concerns about its implementation to condemning it outright.
Tags: budget, Education, ideology, jurisdiction
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Ontario: The new pragmatism
Wednesday, September 17th, 2025
Some 17 out of Ontario’s 24 universities are, or have been, under government mandated third-party efficiency reviews, and many are dealing with deficits and related cuts to programs, faculty and staff… But after all the bruising and battering, universities have found ways to adapt, and some are emerging in fighting form.
Tags: budget, economy, Education, featured, ideology, jurisdiction
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Slim pickings in course calendars
Wednesday, September 17th, 2025
… between 2020 and 2024, Ontario’s population increased by 9.5 per cent, from 14.7 million to 16.1 million. Provincial funding for universities didn’t keep pace, increasing by just 6.7 per cent, from $4.2 billion to $4.6 billion, over that time period… “a student shouldn’t have to worry if the courses they need to fulfill their degree will be offered…”
Tags: budget, Education, jurisdiction
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Ontario’s Post-Secondary Education Crisis in Five Figures
Tuesday, September 16th, 2025
For the province’s universities, the tuition reduction and freeze meant $500 million in lost revenue as of 2019, the year after the policy was announced. By 2024, with the real value of those domestic tuition dollars declining due to inflation, the ongoing freeze was taking nearly $1 billion out of university budgets…
Tags: budget, Education, ideology
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A needed cut of Ontario’s school boards
Monday, September 15th, 2025
Vigorous reform would end the charade of off-loading parents’ concerns to increasingly powerless trustees, rather than the existing chain of command within the school system. Overhauling the outdated trustee model will make it much clearer to parents that the government is ultimately responsible for the education of their children.
Tags: budget, Education, ideology, jurisdiction, participation
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