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[Teachers Unite @Teachers__Unite]

A new labourer with LiUNA Local 183 makes $2260/wk while a new TDSB teacher makes $1080/wk. After upgrading to A4 and reaching the top of the grid, a teacher will still make less. It isn't hard to see why there's an issue with teacher recruitment! #onted #etfo #osstf #oecta #aefo

[Teachers Unite @Teachers__Unite]

The following chart compares TDSB raises, TO Police raises, and inflation for the past 11 years. It's interesting that despite rampant recent inflation, one group of workers has managed to keep pace with inflation. 5% over 4 years isn't fair. #onted #etfo #osstf #oecta #aefo

[Craig Baird - Canadian History Ehx @CraigBaird]

Happy Friday everyone!

Let's celebrate @ParksCanada with generated images of the park animals, enjoying those parks.

This idea came from @MaOnTheAir, host of the podcast Let's Take This Outside.

Banff (@BanffNP):
Founded: 1885
This was Canada's 1st National Park

🧵1/22

[MPP Jamie West @jamiewestndp]

Just saying.
#OnPoli

(Also? It’s time for Ontario to think about MPP @ChandraPasma as the next Minister of #OntEd!)

[Chandra Pasma @ChandraPasma]

The math must be incredibly complex for Lecce to not see how a $1,200 per student shortfall would result in cuts. 🤔

#onpoli #onted

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

Due to hundreds of uncontrolled wildfires across Canada, New York City looks like a post-apocalyptic hellscape.

If you want a prelude of what the world is going to look like if we do not address man-made climate change — this is it.

#ActOnClimate

[Bruce Fanjoy 🍁 @brucefanjoy]

The party Pierre Poilievre leads is the only national political party that will roll back women’s reproductive rights. No other party will.

The proof is in their voting record. In 2021, 68% of Conservative MPs voted in favour of a bill to do just that.

#BillC233

[Ricardo Tranjan @ricardo_tranjan]

Ontario Ministry of Education is underfunding school boards by $2.5 billion, compared to 2018-19, adjusted for inflation and enrolment. #onted #ONpoli

[Wendy Goodes @WendyGoodes]

🧵I just finished reading the 18 page Better Schools And Student Outcomes Act (Bill 98). @Sflecce keeps making these claims outlined below in his clip. As I was reading the Bill, I searched really hard to find reference to all of these items. 🤷🏼‍♀️

[Teachers Unite @Teachers__Unite]

Per-pupil spending is down $1200 (inflation adjusted) since @fordnation came to power and it shows every single day, in every single school. Anyone who has worked in a school for the last 15 years knows what I'm talking about. #onted #depressing

[T Barnes @mrtbarnes]

Comparing the Technical Paper from 2018 compared to 2023

For every 1000 students boards have 3.87 less secondary classroom teachers

For medium sized boards (15k-20k students) that’s 58 - 77 teachers.

That’s roughly the staff of an entire school of 950 students

[Gator⚡Gum @gator_gum]

If you bought a six-pack of beer, returned the empties, and invested that deposit in a student, you would have invested more than the Minister of Education.

[Muna Kadri @munakadri]

Lecce keeps saying we have under performing schools, NO, we have under supported schools.

#onted

[Muna Kadri @munakadri]

Lecce talking about hiring 700 literacy focused teachers to support students.

That means each teacher will need to support about 2900 students.

Lecce math keeps shortchanging our kids.

#onpoli #onted

[Muna Kadri @munakadri]

The big announcement?

About 46 cents per day, per student for math & literacy support.

Lecce focuses on big sounding numbers like "$180 million" but we have 2 million students in Ontario.

How much support do you think your child will get for 46 cents?

#onpoli #onted #yrdsb

[Scott Hardie VP - ETFOTV 🍎 @etfotvvp]

Finally had time to review @OntarioPCParty @fordnation budget this morning. The only additional funding for education is infrastructure. Let’s be clear, buildings, do NOTHING to improve education, assist students or address the violence crisis in Ontario. #OntEd

[OSSTF Communications @osstf]

"Despite the prospects of layoffs (in education), Ford’s 2023 budget has no additional funds earmarked for ed, leaving #OntEd tens of millions of dollars in the hole... ON’s 2023 budget notes that the ed system saw a $47 million spending cut." #OnPoli https://t.co/zLuo4fz87G

[Chris Cowley @oectagovernor]

“And here’s where we pretend to increase the education budget, but really it’s just all federal money for child care”

[John Bowker @bowker_john]

"The increase in education sector funding for this year is $2.3 billion but the entire increase comes from the billions that the federal government has given Ontario for child care" #onpoli #OntEd