Vicki Buder

Community volunteer, labour advocate and fixer of problems. Tweets are my own.

[Tyler Watt 🇨🇦 @tylerwatt]

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
https://t.co/sA7jOKwkHi

[Marit Stiles @MaritStiles]

Doug Ford's Minister of Education spent the entire session standing in front of cameras across Ontario and even in London UK to announce fake funding for our classrooms.

Minister Calandra thought he could silence students and educators by performing accounting tricks on camera.

Instead, he got caught with his pants down after documents revealed his $750 for classrooms were all smoke and mirrors.

[ONTSpecialNeeds @ONTSpecialNeeds]

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[Toronto Star @TorontoStar]

Ontario promised $750/year for teachers to buy supplies. It turns out it's not all new money https://t.co/54xfJME1e0

[Robert Benzie @robertbenzie]

NEW: As 70% of Ontarians say it’s time for a change in government at Queen’s Park, Premier Doug Ford calls a five-month timeout.

https://t.co/Vp1S9stkjp

[Tina Yazdani @TinaYazdani]

New FOI data: majority of Ontario students are rejecting the Ford government’s e-learning mandate.

70% of the first graduating class opted out or were exempt.

The province calls it a tool for digital literacy. Critics say it's a cost-cutting measure: https://t.co/a9aqpP98vC

[Ontario Liberal Party | Parti Libéral de l'Ontario @OntLiberal]

Paul Calandra is laying off custodians and frontline education workers while handing out six-figure management jobs.

These are the people who keep schools clean, safe, and functioning for students every day — and this government treated them like expendable line items.

Twisted priorities from a government that keeps choosing bureaucracy over classrooms.

#onpoli @tylerwatt

[Marit Stiles @MaritStiles]

When it comes to the underfunding of our schools, this Minister of Education thinks he can throw his hands in the air and say “It’s not on me”. Give me a break.

Time after time, parents, teachers and advocates have been sounding the alarm on overcrowded classrooms, crumbling schools, and the lack of support for students with special needs.

Special education plans submitted to the Ministry show that our kids need funding, not another power trip from this Minister who won’t do his job.

[Markus de Domenico TCDSB WARD 2 Trustee Etobicoke @Markus4Ward2]

Brutally honest condemnation of Calandra's Min of Ed

"The minister has said repeatedly that financial mismanagement by trustees is behind the deficits at many Ontario school boards. To fix that, Calandra sidelined trustees, imposed supervisors at eight boards, and limited the future role of trustees.

And yet, the AG’s report obliquely offers an alternative reason for school-board shortfalls. It says that 46 of the province’s 72 school boards spend more money on special ed than the province provides. The total in 2023–24 was $397.9 million. That’s about double the total of school board deficits.

It’s reasonable, then, to conclude that the root cause of school-board deficits is provincial underfunding of special ed."

https://t.co/pKuHSFClGf via @nationalpost

[Marit Stiles @MaritStiles]

BREAKING: Doug Ford’s luxury jet cost taxpayers nearly $200,000 in additional fees.

He told us there were no additional costs for returning it.

He lied.

While Ontarians can’t afford groceries or rent, Ford is living like a rockstar on your dime.

[OSSTF Communications @osstf]

MEDIA RELEASE: “The government continues to talk about student achievement, but you cannot improve outcomes while cutting supports” said Martha Hradowy, President of OSSTF/FEEO. “Students succeed when they feel safe, supported, and connected at school. That requires real investment, not just rhetoric. Ontario students deserve more than spare change.”

Once again, the Ford government’s core education funding falls short of what students and schools need and does not address the growing pressures facing students and their families, teachers, and education workers across the province.

It's students who end up paying the biggest price for this government's chronic underfunding. Ontario deserves FAR better!

Read our full response: https://t.co/JOV7ZHw1U7

[René Jansen in de Wal, OECTA President @OECTAprez]

The govt's Core Education Funding announcement is a thinly veiled attempt to hide cuts that will hurt #OntEd students.

#CatholicTeachers call on the govt to stop the cuts and work with teachers, parents, and communities to make real investments in our schools.

[Elementary Educators @ETFOeducators]

Minister Calandra doesn’t need to hear from supervisors about the funding formula or special education because “we have education workers in every single school and every single community that could tell you what’s wrong ... what’s happening on the ground is not being addressed. Student needs are not being addressed," said @ETFOpresident David Mastin.

Ontario education minister reveals what school boards must do to end supervision #onted #onpoli
https://t.co/CZK8ircEid via @torontostar

[Tina Yazdani @TinaYazdani]

NEW: Most classroom teachers are unable to adequately support students with special education needs, according to a new AG report.

The report also raises concerns about rising EA absences, and students sent home when schools couldn't meet their needs. https://t.co/OxGhFeqxYX

[Colin D'Mello | Global News @ColinDMello]

NEW: Ontario Schools are failing to ‘consistently’ meet requirements of special needs students: Ontario AG.

https://t.co/tun2IYLdA4

#onpoli

[OSSTF Communications @osstf]

The message from #OSSTF members in the Waterloo Region is clear: Ontario’s education funding model isn’t working!

Education workers are speaking out about the growing strain on schools and the impact on student learning and safety.

We’ve been saying it. We mobilized yesterday on it. Now it’s in the headlines.

🔗 https://t.co/U5JL6jAccE

[CTV Kitchener @CTVKitchener]

Education workers say Ontario needs to fix funding formula for schools https://t.co/DUYnZZYDDk

[OSSTF Communications @osstf]

Democracy depends on consultation, not intimidation.

When education workers, unions and communities raise concerns about government legislation, they deserve respect, not hostility. When those raising concerns are met with disrespect, it says a lot about this government’s approach to public education and governance.

Read more via Global News: https://t.co/d5ZwhiN9O1

#OSSTF #OntEd

[Isaac Callan @isaaccallan]

NEW: In the month after he ordered civil servants back to the office because he said people perform better at work, Doug Ford regularly worked from his Etobicoke home and via Microsoft Teams. #OnPoli https://t.co/JIOsU4bdBj

[Brooke 🥀 🇺🇦🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🇬🇱Proud Canadian @FairplayDesigns]

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