"One last thought. Trustees can be incompetent and infuriating but most are not. There are 72 school boards in Ontario, the vast majority of which appear to be functioning properly. Do you cut down the whole tree because of some rotten branches?" nationalpost.com/opinion/rand... #OnEdu #onpoli
Randall Denley: Ontario's education minister scorns the system but finds no fixes
Calandra has raised serious doubts about school trustees, the curriculum, standardized tests, and the level of student achievement.
nationalpost.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:16 PM
"One last thought. Trustees can be incompetent and infuriating but most are not. There are 72 school boards in Ontario, the vast majority of which appear to be functioning properly. Do you cut down the whole tree because of some rotten branches?" nationalpost.com/opinion/rand... #OnEdu #onpoli
East Toronto parents express concerns over province's funding of supportive school programs, plans to take over local boards beachmetro.com/2025/12/09/e... #OnEdu
East Toronto parents express concerns over province's funding of supportive school programs, plans to take over local boards – Beach Metro Community News
A recent "walk-in" demonstration to protest the lack of provincial funding and Ontario's Bill 33 in front of St. Joseph Catholic School on Leslie Street.
beachmetro.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
East Toronto parents express concerns over province's funding of supportive school programs, plans to take over local boards beachmetro.com/2025/12/09/e... #OnEdu
.... rare instances of fiscal mismanagement at the board level to give the impression of a crisis. What most educators will tell you is that the crisis is with a drastic underfunding of schools ... not on governance issues at the school board level #OnEdu www.brantfordexpositor.ca/news/local-n...
UPDATED: Catholic trustee under fire for not repaying expenses for trip to Italy has resigned from school board
UPDATED: Catholic trustee under fire for not repaying expenses for trip to Italy has resigned from school board
www.brantfordexpositor.ca
October 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
.... rare instances of fiscal mismanagement at the board level to give the impression of a crisis. What most educators will tell you is that the crisis is with a drastic underfunding of schools ... not on governance issues at the school board level #OnEdu www.brantfordexpositor.ca/news/local-n...
Local Government Week (LGW) aims to increase youth and public awareness about the important role local government plays in our communities. Please join OPSBA, our member trustees and our education partners in raising civic awareness and promoting the role of trustees among Ontario students. #OnEdu
October 20, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Local Government Week (LGW) aims to increase youth and public awareness about the important role local government plays in our communities. Please join OPSBA, our member trustees and our education partners in raising civic awareness and promoting the role of trustees among Ontario students. #OnEdu
"Local decisions are best made informed by local circumstances and parent and community perspectives, not from Queen’s Park, where broader educational policy is decided" #OnEdu #Onpoli www.cambridgetoday.ca/local-news/o...
OPINION: Renewal of school boards needed, not removal of trustees
Four former directors of education argue that instead of eliminating school trustees, a review of the mandate and operations of school boards ‘could be beneficial’
www.cambridgetoday.ca
October 14, 2025 at 2:57 PM
"Local decisions are best made informed by local circumstances and parent and community perspectives, not from Queen’s Park, where broader educational policy is decided" #OnEdu #Onpoli www.cambridgetoday.ca/local-news/o...
"Ontarians know that the biggest problem for education is provincial underfunding; the cuts that hurt students, schools and education workers aren’t the fault of local and accountable school boards trustees" #onpoli #OnEdu torontosun.com/pmn/business...
Not fooled by Conservatives' scapegoating school boards, Ontarians blame Ford's underfunding for school cuts: poll
TORONTO — Just weeks after students returned to class and a month since Education Minister Paul Calandra began his scapegoat-the-school-boards media blitz, a new p…
torontosun.com
September 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM
"Ontarians know that the biggest problem for education is provincial underfunding; the cuts that hurt students, schools and education workers aren’t the fault of local and accountable school boards trustees" #onpoli #OnEdu torontosun.com/pmn/business...
New Blog Post!
Fire-sale Ontario: Ontario's College System Is on the Auction Block.
Ontario is side-stepping pub. ed and funding private companies w/ public cash; the result is an artificially created crisis in the college system.
#onpoli #onedu #canada
thegroundbreaker.ca/2025/09/10/f...
Fire-sale Ontario: Ontario's College System Is on the Auction Block.
Ontario is side-stepping pub. ed and funding private companies w/ public cash; the result is an artificially created crisis in the college system.
#onpoli #onedu #canada
thegroundbreaker.ca/2025/09/10/f...
Fire-sale Ontario – Ontario’s College System Is on the Auction Block.
Billions for corporations, cuts for students: the truth about Ontario’s education crisis and how we’re sleepwalking into economic crisis. For decades, Ontario’s public colleges have bee…
thegroundbreaker.ca
September 10, 2025 at 10:18 AM
New Blog Post!
Fire-sale Ontario: Ontario's College System Is on the Auction Block.
Ontario is side-stepping pub. ed and funding private companies w/ public cash; the result is an artificially created crisis in the college system.
#onpoli #onedu #canada
thegroundbreaker.ca/2025/09/10/f...
Fire-sale Ontario: Ontario's College System Is on the Auction Block.
Ontario is side-stepping pub. ed and funding private companies w/ public cash; the result is an artificially created crisis in the college system.
#onpoli #onedu #canada
thegroundbreaker.ca/2025/09/10/f...
"In reality, it’s a power-grab — and another step toward centralizing authority in order to sideline communities, parents and students." #OnEdu #onpoli www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Do you care about democracy? Then you should care about threats to elected school boards in Canada
Ontario is the latest province to send out the corrosive message that democratic oversight just isn't worth the trouble.
www.thestar.com
August 28, 2025 at 12:05 PM
"In reality, it’s a power-grab — and another step toward centralizing authority in order to sideline communities, parents and students." #OnEdu #onpoli www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
After Nova Scotia eliminated school boards in 2018, enhanced parent councils to oversee schools never functioned as planned, according to Sachin Maharaj, an assistant professor of education at the University of Ottawa. www.cbc.ca/lite/story/1... #onedu
Eliminating trustees would leave schools 'at the whims of Toronto'
www.cbc.ca
August 22, 2025 at 2:48 PM
After Nova Scotia eliminated school boards in 2018, enhanced parent councils to oversee schools never functioned as planned, according to Sachin Maharaj, an assistant professor of education at the University of Ottawa. www.cbc.ca/lite/story/1... #onedu
"Especially when the province’s own recent report on the TDSB, by PriceWaterhouseCoopers, found that there had been no wrongdoing, no lack of financial oversight and no self-inflicted reputational damage on the part of the board" #ONEdu #Onpoli
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Doug Ford’s special brand of arbitrary government is on full display in his TDSB takeover
Ontario school boards face severe economic challenges, most of which flow from decisions made by the province.
www.thestar.com
July 14, 2025 at 3:14 PM
"Especially when the province’s own recent report on the TDSB, by PriceWaterhouseCoopers, found that there had been no wrongdoing, no lack of financial oversight and no self-inflicted reputational damage on the part of the board" #ONEdu #Onpoli
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
#Ontario to give education minister power to more easily take over school boards globalnews.ca/news/1120279...
#Onpoli #Onedu
#Onpoli #Onedu
Ontario to give education minister power to more easily take over school boards | Globalnews.ca
Ontario is set to give the minister of education power to more easily put school boards under supervision and require more boards to put police officers in schools.
globalnews.ca
May 29, 2025 at 1:20 PM
#Ontario to give education minister power to more easily take over school boards globalnews.ca/news/1120279...
#Onpoli #Onedu
#Onpoli #Onedu
New blog post coming soon.
"The Neoliberal Legacy - The Death of Post-Secondary Education in Ontario"
How the sustained cuts and drops in public funding has caused a looming funding crisis in post-secondary education. Who's to blame, how did we get here, and how can we fix it?
#onpoli #ONedu
"The Neoliberal Legacy - The Death of Post-Secondary Education in Ontario"
How the sustained cuts and drops in public funding has caused a looming funding crisis in post-secondary education. Who's to blame, how did we get here, and how can we fix it?
#onpoli #ONedu
January 17, 2025 at 9:46 PM
TODAY is the last day to share your experiences and thoughts related to air quality in schools and on school buses in Ontario!
Your stories will help people to better understand the real human toll behind the school absence data that we obtained via FOI requests. #OntEd #ONedu #OnPoli
Your stories will help people to better understand the real human toll behind the school absence data that we obtained via FOI requests. #OntEd #ONedu #OnPoli
If you haven’t completed the survey yet and would like to share your experiences about air quality in #ontEd schools and on school buses, there’s still time!
You have until midnight tonight (Jan 6)!
You have until midnight tonight (Jan 6)!
January 6, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Ontario Educators 👀 #OnEdu
"Since Premier Doug Ford came to power in 2018, school board funding has dropped a stunning $1,500 per student, on average, when adjusted for inflation."
📈 class sizes & introduction of mandatory online courses resulted in Ontario having 5,000 fewer teachers.
"Since Premier Doug Ford came to power in 2018, school board funding has dropped a stunning $1,500 per student, on average, when adjusted for inflation."
📈 class sizes & introduction of mandatory online courses resulted in Ontario having 5,000 fewer teachers.
Ontario is asking education workers to do more with less and blaming them for the consequences of funding cuts. Parents need to pick a side. My latest for the @torontostar.bsky.social
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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?
www.thestar.com
December 8, 2024 at 5:38 PM
Ontario Educators 👀 #OnEdu
"Since Premier Doug Ford came to power in 2018, school board funding has dropped a stunning $1,500 per student, on average, when adjusted for inflation."
📈 class sizes & introduction of mandatory online courses resulted in Ontario having 5,000 fewer teachers.
"Since Premier Doug Ford came to power in 2018, school board funding has dropped a stunning $1,500 per student, on average, when adjusted for inflation."
📈 class sizes & introduction of mandatory online courses resulted in Ontario having 5,000 fewer teachers.
The Bluewater board's digital course calendar has won the Coup de Coeur category at the BRAVO! Awards Program, hosted by the Canadian Association of Communicators in Education during its annual conference in Calgary #OnEdu #EduSky 🍎 cknewstoday.ca/midwestern/n...
Bluewater's digital course selection caldendar recognized
The Bluewater District School Board is celebrating national recognition for a groundbreaking initiative that improves accessibility for secondary students and their families when choosing courses.
cknewstoday.ca
November 25, 2024 at 6:00 PM
The Bluewater board's digital course calendar has won the Coup de Coeur category at the BRAVO! Awards Program, hosted by the Canadian Association of Communicators in Education during its annual conference in Calgary #OnEdu #EduSky 🍎 cknewstoday.ca/midwestern/n...
“School boards applaud the agreement reached between the federal and provincial government, marking a historic commitment of $108.5 million in new federal funds in support of student nutrition programs in Ontario." #OnEdu #EduSky www.opsba.org/opsba_news/o...
OPSBA Statement on the Canada-Ontario National School Food Program Agreement - OPSBA
Toronto, November 22, 2024 – “School boards applaud the agreement reached between the federal and provincial government, marking a historic commitment of $108.5 million in new federal funds in support...
www.opsba.org
November 25, 2024 at 4:17 PM
“School boards applaud the agreement reached between the federal and provincial government, marking a historic commitment of $108.5 million in new federal funds in support of student nutrition programs in Ontario." #OnEdu #EduSky www.opsba.org/opsba_news/o...
Weak argument. Questioning how #teachers teach? Take it up with the union > Sherazi: #Cellphones provide checks and balances in class, not just distractions | Unpublished #ontario #onedu #onpoli ...
November 24, 2024 at 2:50 AM
Weak argument. Questioning how #teachers teach? Take it up with the union > Sherazi: #Cellphones provide checks and balances in class, not just distractions | Unpublished #ontario #onedu #onpoli ...
Ha ha—Good luck with that… Clearly no one in your gov’t has taught kindergarten @fordnation > #Ontario preparing ‘back to basics’ #curriculum for #kindergarten | Unpublished #onedu #onnews #onpoli ...
November 25, 2024 at 10:27 AM
Ha ha—Good luck with that… Clearly no one in your gov’t has taught kindergarten @fordnation > #Ontario preparing ‘back to basics’ #curriculum for #kindergarten | Unpublished #onedu #onnews #onpoli ...
#onpoli #onedu #academicfreedom #freespeech
This and some other articles newly edited to my list of reporting on #DougFord's demand for particular free speech policies from Ontario universities: https://x.com/i/moments/1008797307154751489
This and some other articles newly edited to my list of reporting on #DougFord's demand for particular free speech policies from Ontario universities: https://x.com/i/moments/1008797307154751489
December 4, 2024 at 5:05 PM
#onpoli #onedu #academicfreedom #freespeech
This and some other articles newly edited to my list of reporting on #DougFord's demand for particular free speech policies from Ontario universities: https://x.com/i/moments/1008797307154751489
This and some other articles newly edited to my list of reporting on #DougFord's demand for particular free speech policies from Ontario universities: https://x.com/i/moments/1008797307154751489
The deadline for Ford's demand to instate US-based Chicago Principles in #onpse is approaching. To help keep up to date with those processes at different #onedu institutions, see here. Send new links if you have them.
“#DougFord's #FreeSpeech...
“#DougFord's #FreeSpeech...
December 4, 2024 at 5:16 PM
The deadline for Ford's demand to instate US-based Chicago Principles in #onpse is approaching. To help keep up to date with those processes at different #onedu institutions, see here. Send new links if you have them.
“#DougFord's #FreeSpeech...
“#DougFord's #FreeSpeech...