Jessie Donner

[Gregory Daco @GregDaco]

@FIFAWorldCup The unemployment rate remains low at 4.3% in May.

This is certainly very encouraging, but we shouldn't forget that absent the notable decline in labor force participation of the past year (more than 0.6pt), the unemployment rate would be closer to 5%.

[Gregory Daco @GregDaco]

@FIFAWorldCup 🔻Wage growth -0.2pt to 3.4% y/y

👀Wage growth falling further into the low 3% is not a positive development for households. Remember the labor market is NOT inflationary w/ unit labor costs up only 0.5% y/y.

🔻The real concern: the income squeeze

[Teachers Unite @Teachers__Unite]

'Rushed' changes unlikely to solve teacher shortage: Lakehead dean. ##onted #cdned #edchat https://t.co/p7WDvVi053

[Jessie Donner @J__Donner]

@GregDaco @Bloomberg Very impressive segment. Well done! 👏

[Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71]

Unsupervised assessed work is dead. This cannot endure. You can't manage a system like this.

[John H. Boyer @johnhboyer]

A peak into life in the ai term paper trenches 🧵

3 student zoom interviews today about suspected ai use in papers. All three were flagged by @pangram. Here’s how it turned out:

[Mohamed A. El-Erian @elerianm]

A sobering statistic from the BLS highlights another dimension of the Main Street/Wall Street divide:
The US labor share of output fell to 54.1% in Q1 2026, the lowest level since this data series began in 1947.
Put another way, labor is consistently capturing a declining share of the value created by productivity gains, with the benefits increasingly accruing to the owners of capital.
#economy #markets #labor #productivity

[Dustin Gouker @DustinGouker]

I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to call this the greatest piece of prediction market content created to date.

[William Shatner @WilliamShatner]

Planning my 1/2 price chocolate run for Monday. 😉

[Teachers Unite @Teachers__Unite]

The #TDSB’s use of uncertified teachers has increased by a staggering 1,152% in the seven years since  2017-18. Nobody wants to teach due to the pay and working conditions.
#onted #cdned #edchat https://t.co/ZnCUcb1Yvv

[Jessie Donner @J__Donner]

@peteirishpilot ouch. 🤣

[aircraftmaintenancengineer @airmainengineer]

Air Canada Rouge Airbus A321 smashing it down at Fort Lauderdale International Airport 😱✈️
📸 jamaica_aviation_spotters

[Siobhan Morris @siomoCTV]

The Director of Education for the Near North DSB has retired. The board is under provincial supervision.

Craig Myles increased his own salary, let a family member use a board credit card, and moved his office into an empty school https://t.co/9UHAmOmSQu

[Jessie Donner @J__Donner]

@PaulCalandra Credit integrity needs to be addressed in #OntEd.

via: @reddit

[Jessie Donner @J__Donner]

@_Andrew_Chu_ @GLoncarich @SOSTDSB @DrPeiTO @TorontoStar Finland’s municipalities function as full education authorities. If Ontario wanted to mirror that, we’d need to rewrite the Education Act and transfer school board powers to municipal councils. That’s a very different structure than the one we have now.

[Jessie Donner @J__Donner]

@_Andrew_Chu_ @GLoncarich @SOSTDSB @DrPeiTO @TorontoStar MPPs provide provincial oversight, but education also needs specialized local governance. Municipal councils focus on land use and services, not curriculum, staffing, or student supports. School boards remain the dedicated governance structure for those responsibilities.

#Onted

[Jessie Donner @J__Donner]

@_Andrew_Chu_ @GLoncarich @SOSTDSB @DrPeiTO @TorontoStar School boards no longer levy taxes, but education still requires democratic oversight of taxpayer funds because it’s compulsory, community-based, and affects families/children daily.

Healthcare governance differs —services are accessed as needed and guided by clinicians.

[Jessie Donner @J__Donner]

@_Andrew_Chu_ @GLoncarich @SOSTDSB @DrPeiTO @TorontoStar Charter schools may be not-for-profit and tuition-free, but they form a publicly funded system that sits outside the authority of elected school boards.

Public money = public oversight/governance.

#Onted

[Jessie Donner @J__Donner]

@_Andrew_Chu_ @GLoncarich @SOSTDSB @DrPeiTO @TorontoStar I understand the analogy, but family doctors operate within a single unified system under provincial regulation. Charter schools, by design, create a publicly funded but separately governed system. That is why the privatization debate exists.

#Onted

[Jessie Donner @J__Donner]

@_Andrew_Chu_ @GLoncarich @SOSTDSB @DrPeiTO @TorontoStar Always interesting when discussions about charter schools end abruptly. For the record: public funding + private governance structures is why people debate whether they’re a form of subsidized privatization.

(Blocking me doesn't change those facts.)

Thanks for the insight.

[Jessie Donner @J__Donner]

@GLoncarich @_Andrew_Chu_ @SOSTDSB @DrPeiTO @TorontoStar Public operating grants flowing into a privately governed school are a *subsidy*.

Governance (shaped by donors/sponsors) guide the school's operations.

Public money without public accountability is still *public money spent privately*.

Why should #Onted taxpayers pay for this?