Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce must really want to be a magician: making elephants disappear, then reappear behind you. Maybe that explains his tactic of making cuts to education, then announcing the addition of nearly 2,000 more educators all while introducing new legislation that will further centralize education and enable his Tories to make school properties available to their developer friends.
Hamilton’s public school board chairs revealed their initial thoughts on the Ford government’s recent education funding announcement and the plan to convert underutilized schools.
The Ontario government wants more power over school boards’ academic priorities and better training for senior leaders, and is also proposing it play a larger role in the selling off of surplus school properties.