THUNDER BAY, ON – Last Friday’s announcement of the government’s cuts to education funding has left some education workers at Lakehead District School Board (LDSB) fearing the worst for the safety of students in the region’s schools. The government’s education funding for 2019-20 slashed a total $2.13 million from Lakehead District School Board’s budgets and…
TORONTO, ON – Thirty international language instructors with the Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB) will take part in a different kind of lesson on Thursday morning, May 2, as they begin the day at Queen’s Park in the company of students from TCDSB schools, teachers, parents and school board trustees. The group is marking…
TORONTO, ON – Empty promises and meaningless phrases in the Ford government’s budget announcement mask the true harm that will be done to Ontario’s students and system of public education, said the leader of the council that represents 55,000 education workers in the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). The most direct consequence of the…
TORONTO, ON – Thousands of parents, educators, community groups, students and unions from across the province will converge on Queen’s Park at 12 noon tomorrow April 6 for a rally for public education in Ontario. In advance of the provincial budget, the rally will call on the government to make investments, not cuts, to publicly…
LONDON, ON – Even though there will be more children with autism enrolled in Thames Valley schools in September, layoff notices went out this month to educational assistants (EAs), the very workers who provide support for students with a wide range of special needs. And EAs who want to become certified in Autism Behaviour Analysis…
TORONTO, ON – Major cuts to funding for staff who support students in school are buried in today’s much-ballyhooed announcement on changes to education, said the union that represents 55,000 education workers in the province. Representatives of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) shared their findings of $309 million in cuts after their analysis…
As parents, educators, front-line workers, education stakeholders’ and as concerned residents in Ontario, we strongly urge the government to rethink its rash decision-making on the Ontario Autism Program and put the needs of children with autism first. The Ford government’s reckless changes to the way it supports children with autism – in particular, its cuts…
TORONTO, ON – The contempt that the Ford government has shown to children with autism and their parents now extends to all children in Ontario’s public education system, said representatives of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) in the wake of today’s news of a province-wide school board hiring freeze. The union warns that such a…
TORONTO, ON – Members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) will join other advocates and allies of the province’s children at the “No Cuts to Education – United We Resist” rally, which will take from 5 to 8 p.m. today (Wednesday) at the Toronto Congress Centre in Etobicoke. Education activists from unions, parent…
TORONTO, ON – The reasoning behind the Ford government’s rumoured plans to reduce the number of school boards across Ontario is based on a set of false assumptions and the move won’t save money, but will weaken the province’s education system, says Laura Walton, president of the Ontario School Board Council of Unions (OSBCU), a…
