In my next teacher-parent meeting, my focus will be the teacher. Here’s why I wonder how my kid’s teacher is coping with the repeated funding cuts, increased demands on schools, and public attacks from our own provincial government?

"Ford came to power in 2018, school board funding has⬇️a stunning $1,500/student... The⬆️in class sizes & the introduction of mandatory online courses have resulted in ON having 5K fewer teachers than it would otherwise." #FordFailedOurSchools #onpoli #cdnpoli www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

TDSB approves balanced budget but trustees aren’t happy. ‘We’ve been managing the decline’ The Toronto District School Board must find ways to reduce absenteeism among the measures to make up its deficit for 2024-25.

“Every year we’ve had budget deficits — all six years, all we’ve been doing is managing the decline. Trying to put the fires out,” #oned #FordFailedOurSchools #FordFailedOurChildren #FordFailedOntario #onpoli www.thestar.com/news/gta/tds...

The cool kids are doing it: New misting stations in Toronto Catholic schools offer relief as temperatures soar The pilot project in a dozen schools is one of the solutions educators will be turning to this week, as Toronto endures a heat wave.

"It’s unconscionable that we wld have schools operating in circumstances like this b/c teachers can’t teach & kids can’t learn...at the TDSB, which has 582 schools in total, 177 have central air conditioning." 😒That is <1/3! #FordFailedOurSchools #onpoli www.thestar.com/news/gta/the...