The Ford government's $750 classroom gift card gimmick was insulting and admits that our schools are underfunded. Asking teachers to buy classroom supplies is like asking nurses to shop for medical supplies before work because the hospital can't provide them. Now we learn that $300 of the promised $750 isn't even new funding - it's being taken from existing education dollars. That's not an investment in public education. It's a shell game. Ontario students and educators deserve properly funded classrooms, not government announcements that sound bigger than they really are. #onpoli #onted thestar.com/politics/provinc…

RT @ETFOeducators: On the Classroom Supplies Fund, @etfopresident David Mastin told the Toronto Star, “These types of announcements ... are…

Closing specialized classrooms with high levels of 1:1 support and dumping vulnerable students with complex needs into regular classrooms with no additional supports other than telling their teachers to use visuals is not actually “inclusion”. #OntEd

Doug Ford mocked students for taking “basket-weaving courses” and blowing OSAP money on “luxury watches and colognes.” A new report shows less than 1% of OSAP funds were misused. Less. Than. 1%. He invented a crisis to cut student aid – then pulled $30 million from people’s pockets to buy himself a luxury private jet. I’ll keep fighting this government until the cuts to OSAP are reversed.

RT @ETFOeducators: "While the province has chosen to increase the declining enrolment adjustment allocation, this targeted boost does nothi…

NEW: Ontario Schools are failing to ‘consistently’ meet requirements of special needs students: Ontario AG. globalnews.ca/news/11845037/… #onpoli

🚨 BREAKING: This is a red alert from the Ontario auditor general Thanks to BILLIONS OF DOLLARS worth of cuts from the Ford government, the state of special education in our public schools is rapidly declining, with teachers struggling to support students with special ed needs

Our new principal cut lunch to 15 minutes. Not 15 minutes to eat. 15 minutes total. Line. Food. Sit down. Eat. Trash. Done. The legal lunch requirement in our district was 30–45 minutes. We were already at the minimum. Then a new principal showed up and decided middle schoolers needed to “learn time management.” On the first day, we rushed to lunch like normal. Sat down. Ready to eat. Then got told to wait because the principal needed to explain the new “lunch rules.” He talked for 10 minutes. By the time we got through the line and sat down, the bell rang. Lunch was over. No one had even taken a bite. An entire cafeteria full of 7th graders just sat there holding untouched trays while he got on the mic and said: “Have a good day, students.” That was it. No explanation. No second lunch. Nothing. Just kids throwing away full trays of food because lunch ended before anyone got to eat. I asked a teacher what was going on. She looked nervous and quietly said lunch was only 15 minutes now. No warning. No notice to parents. Nothing. So I asked the principal why he thought this was okay. He looked me dead in the face and said: “Students need to learn to eat faster and manage their time better.” So I called my mom right in front of him. His face changed instantly. Turns out there was a reason for that. What he did was illegal. My mom made a few calls, checked district policy, and two weeks later lunch was suddenly 40 minutes again. Funny how fast “time management” disappears when lawyers start asking questions.

#BREAKING: I've written to Prime Minister Mark Carney, urging him to intervene to stop Doug Ford's Toronto Islands land grab. While emergency rooms close, grocery prices go up, and workers lose their jobs, Doug Ford’s obsession with Toronto is costing the province. The federal government can end this today.

Thank you @ElemTeachersTO for letting hundreds of thousands of @TorontoStar readers know how #fordnation is gutting the quality of education. #FundOurSchools!

#BREAKING: Doug Ford was in such a rush to hide his phone records that his Freedom of Information changes quietly received royal assent this morning, on a Friday, with the Legislature not even sitting. I have sent urgent letters to: 1. The Secretary of Cabinet 2. The RCMP 3. Ontario's Information and Privacy Commissioner Each is being asked to act immediately to safeguard evidence related to the Greenbelt scandal before this government can destroy it. As Premier, I will reverse these changes and restore transparency, trust, and faith in our democracy.

BREAKING: The Ford government has passed the budget bill, complete with the retroactive FOI scaleback. MPPs were chanting “F-O-I” in the house. #onpoli

#BREAKING: Democracy dies in darkness. Doug Ford just passed a law to hide his phone records and 40 years of public records. Honest governments don't change the law to protect them from the truth. As Premier, I will roll back these changes and restore transparency, trust, and faith in our democracy.

RT @ETFOeducators: Today, the Ford government announced changes to Ontario’s teacher education program that will not fully address our teac…

BREAKING: Premier Doug Ford is changing Ontario's elections rules: - No more fixed election dates with a 5-year maximum - The premier will decide on the date of the election - Increasing the annual contribution amount to $5,000 / per person - Making the per-vote subsidy permanent - Eliminate pre-writ spending limits for political parties and third parties. #onpoli

So, he is trying to change the rules to suit his own agenda. @fordnation is sounding more and more like Donald Trump every day. He is just as corrupt.

I am very concerned to learn that Ontario is considering changes that could eliminate rent control, opening the door to rent hikes that could push people into homelessness - making an already bad situation worse. I grew up in a one bedroom apartment and while my mom and I didn’t have a lot, we had enough for us to stay there. Rent control was a lifesaver for us. For a government to even think like this is terrible and I will be opposing this every way that I can. cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/p…

Doug Ford is on the verge of making a terrible mistake. "... doing away with the very people (trustees) whose job it is to be accountable at the local level is the wrong answer. It will accomplish the exact opposite." thestar.com/opinion/contribu… #onted #onpoli

Every new story makes it clearer: Therme hit the jackpot, Ontarians got ripped off. Ford handed Ontario Place to a company that boosted its books by $170M in paper profits from a stalled spa in Germany. Auditors flagged ‘significant uncertainty’ in Therme’s finances — but Ford looked away. Now Ontario families are stuck with a $2.2B bill and the loss of our public land. This deal is rotten to the core. Ford must cancel it.

For all the talk about creating safe spaces, schools are anything but. Educators, as well as students, experience elevated levels of stress, fear, and anxiety due to increasing levels of violence, which greatly impacts the school culture. #etfo #onted #cdned #edchat