What is the Plan for September Premier Ford? Ontario parents, students, teachers and education workers continue to wait for the Ford government to release a well-funded, research-based, comprehensive plan for September that prioritizes Ontario’s children, their learning and their mental health. Meanwhile, news is surfacing about the concerning impact of the pandemic and school closures […]
Fix Our Schools is calling upon the Ford government to: Resume the transparency into school disrepair in Ontario that was first introduced by the previous Liberal government in 2016, by releasing updated Facilities Condition Index/Disrepair data on Ontario’s schools in a comparable format to the data that was released in November 2017, so that the […]
The Toronto District School Board (TDSB) has released its annual snapshot of the condition of its schools. The Fix Our Schools campaign applauds the TDSB’s transparency on this issue and looks to the Ministry of Education to follow suit in updating and releasing disrepair data for all of Ontario’s publicly funded schools. As per today’s […]
Fix Our Schools is thrilled to see the ongoing transparency into the magnitude of disrepair in Ontario’s school buildings. Today, in this press release, the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) has released its annual school-by-school Facility Condition Index (FCI) rating of its 584 school buildings, as well as the repair backlog for each school. The […]
Submitted on August 19,2015 to the Minister of Education, the TDSB Governance Advisory Panel’s report was finally released on December 4, 2015. The report offers many reasonable recommendations to improve role clarity, accountability and leadership on both the Trustee and Staff side of the TDSB, which the panel believes are root causes of TDSB governance issues. […]
Fix Our Schools has always been, and remains, a non-partisan campaign. We believe that safe, healthy, well-maintained schools ought to be a priority for all provincial parties. As Ontario citizens head to the polls in June 2022, we sincerely hope that publicly-funded schools and education will be a priority issue and, as such, we felt […]
If we prioritized children in Ontario, we would have standards in place for the spaces where they spend their days – school buildings, portables and schoolyards that would include and address: The $16.8-billion of disrepair in school buildings A program to assess current repair backlogs in portables and schoolyards Air quality and ventilation Classroom temperatures Accessibility […]
More Proof that School Conditions Matter Fix Our Schools began is a parent-led, non-partisan, Ontario-wide campaign focused on ensuring all publicly funded school buildings, portables and schoolyards are safe, healthy, well-maintained, and provide environments conducive to learning and working. Since we launched in 2014, we have always believed that school conditions matter. Taking care of […]
Ventilation is a key aspect of keeping people safe during the COVID-pandemic. With schools opening soon for in-person learning for the first time in many months, amidst what has been confirmed to be the fourth wave of the COVID-pandemic in Ontario, ventilation in schools is understandably a hot topic. The August 13, 2021 Toronto Star […]
Before the COVID-19 pandemic took centre stage in our lives, lead in drinking water had been in the headlines. A 2019 Toronto Star article entitled, “We can do better. Province concedes it must be more transparent about lead in school water“, featured a massive investigation revealing over 2,400 schools and daycares in Ontario with exceedances […]