Posts Tagged ‘Education’
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Why bolstering post-secondary education for former youth in care is a wise investment
Thursday, August 7th, 2025
When youth age out of care… they are expected to navigate adulthood with no family network, limited life skills and inadequate financial supports. The result is a predictable cycle of poverty, homelessness and criminalization. The cost of this approach is staggering… In Ontario, every dollar invested in extended care from ages 21 to 25 could yield $1.36 million in savings or earnings over a lifetime through improved educational attainment, reduced reliance on social benefits, lower rates of criminal justice involvement and increased contributions through taxes.
Tags: crime prevention, Education, participation, poverty, youth
Posted in Child & Family Debates | 1 Comment »
Should back-to-school require parent fundraising? Ontario schools are woefully underfunded, and families pay the price
Tuesday, August 5th, 2025
Taking over boards can be seen as a distraction tactic as the government is asking them to meet growing needs with fewer resources. Instead of increasing funding, which is necessary and long overdue, the government is likely to cut costs in the short term by privatizing services, a trajectory researchers have documented for some time. These shifts to the private sector are shortsighted attempts to balance a budget that only serve to raise the taxpayer burden over time.
Tags: budget, Education, ideology, jurisdiction, standard of living, youth
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School lunches, the French way: It’s not just about nutrition, but togetherness and bon appetit
Tuesday, July 15th, 2025
… we need to shift from thinking of school lunches as a safety net for kids living in poverty to thinking about them as benefiting the health and well-being of children and their families… the cultural diversity of Canadian school communities is reflected in the food on offer… centralized kitchens can prepare thousands of servings of a main dish daily… to prepare food for daycares and for seniors who were home-bound — something to consider for Canadian cities…
Tags: Education, ideology, multiculturalism, participation, standard of living, youth
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Doug Ford’s fiscal time bomb is devastating Ontario’s colleges
Monday, July 14th, 2025
The root of the crisis in higher education lies with the fiscal time bomb planted by Doug Ford’s provincial government when it came to power seven full years ago… The latest job losses and cancelled courses were always foreseeable, because post-secondary funding remains unsustainable… universities say the government’s chronic underfunding will leave them unable to find spots for 80,000 worthy Ontario applicants over the next five years.
Tags: budget, Education, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, youth
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Don’t be fooled by big numbers—Ontario budget fails to address years-long funding shortfalls
Thursday, July 10th, 2025
Underfunding trends persist in total program spending, education, post-secondary education, and health. Public services provide the support Ontarians need and good jobs that support the economy—investing in them is the best way to shield the province. But that’s not happening. On the job protection front, we expect more—much more—given the alarming job losses we’re already witnessing. The 2025 budget fails to grasp the importance of protecting workers, not only for their families’ sake, but also as a mitigating strategy that prevents a deep recession.
Tags: budget, economy, Education, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, standard of living
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Rebuilding Canadian post-secondary education
Thursday, July 10th, 2025
Canada has a chance to lead the world in higher education, if it can fix its own long-neglected system first… Taking advantage of the brain-drain from the US, we could recruit the best and brightest to fill our labs, faculty lounges, and classrooms. By leading the world in research, we could build back up some credibility and soft power on the world stage that we have lost in recent decades. However, this would require new public investments in education.
Tags: budget, Education, globalization, ideology, jurisdiction
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Cuts at Ontario colleges leading to nearly 10,000 job losses, union says
Wednesday, July 9th, 2025
… the suspended and cancelled programs are not only those primarily attended by international students. “It’s also programs we domestically need, programs like nursing, child and youth care, environmental technologies, specialized art training that is not offered anywhere else,” … the 10,000 reported layoffs represent a staff reduction of about 17 per cent in a workforce of more than 60,000… but is not proportional to the 45 per cent reduction in student enrolment,”
Tags: budget, Education, jurisdiction, participation, youth
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Ford government is still underfunding education despite budget increase, school boards say
Wednesday, June 4th, 2025
Spending $30.3 billion on per-pupil funding in 2025-26 doesn’t make up for years funding didn’t keep up with inflation, says the boards’ association… when the Ford government took power in 2018, per-pupil funding was $12,282, and in the upcoming school year will be $14,560 — but when adjusted to 2018 dollars, funding has actually dropped, leaving a $693-million gap for the province’s 31 English public boards alone.
Tags: budget, Education, featured, jurisdiction, participation
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Bill 33 doesn’t dissolve Ontario’s school boards — but it’s yet another hit to their power
Wednesday, June 4th, 2025
At the point where cabinet is asserting the power to micro-manage the real estate portfolios of boards (and even pick and choose when schools can be renamed) it’s time to ask whether school boards actually serve a purpose anymore, or whether we’d be better off governing public education with more direct and clear lines of accountability to the premier and his cabinet.
Tags: Education, jurisdiction, participation
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Ontario adding 2,600 teacher college spaces amid shortage
Friday, May 23rd, 2025
Teachers union presidents say adding 2,600 new teacher education spots is a good start toward addressing the shortage but the government needs to work on not just recruitment, but retention… “There’s 40,000 people who are fully qualified, who aren’t working in education right now, and that’s because of the working conditions — the crumbling buildings, the overcrowding, the violence in the classroom… “You can put more bodies in, but are they going to stay?”
Tags: budget, Education, jurisdiction, standard of living
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