On September 19, 2016, Fix Our Schools sent this letter to Premier Wynne and Education Minister asking the their government please:
- Explore and implement funding solutions such as issuing provincial bonds to immediately address the $15-billion repair backlog in schools.
- Work with school boards to develop measurable goals for what school conditions in Ontario ought to be; and plans/timelines for how those goals will be achieved.
- Release disrepair data at regular intervals to ensure that the $15-billion repair backlog is decreasing; and not continuing to increase.
- Include school conditions as a key part of your party’s provincial campaign platform.
We requested a response to these requests by October 3, 2016.
As of Monday, October 10 – no response has been received.
If school conditions are important to you and you share our concerns, we encourage you to please send this letter to Premier Wynne & Minister Hunter also! Please ensure you include your MPP; and include your name and address at the bottom of the letter.
Here is the letter below, should you wish to copy and paste instead:
To: Premier Wynne, Education Minister Hunter, Minister of Infrastructure Chiarelli & Deputy Minister Zegarac,
I am engaged with the Fix Our Schools campaign, which represents thousands of Ontario parents. Today, I ask your government to improve school conditions for all students in this province by immediately addressing the $15-billion of disrepair that has accumulated in our children’s schools.
While I commend the government’s increase in annual funding for school repairs to an industry-accepted standard, this new level of $1.4-billion/year for school repairs does little to address the $15-billion repair backlog that was allowed to accumulate in Ontario’s publicly funded schools over the past 20 years. In September of this year, an unacceptable number of Ontario’s students headed back to aging schools with hot classrooms, leaky ceilings, and myriad other issues.
Therefore, I call upon your government to improve school conditions for all Ontario students and find funding solutions to immediately address the $15-billion of disrepair in our children’s schools. I ask that your government please:
- Explore and implement funding solutions such as issuing provincial bonds to immediately address the $15-billion repair backlog in schools.
- Work with school boards to develop measurable goals for what school conditions in Ontario ought to be; and plans/timelines for how those goals will be achieved.
- Release disrepair data at regular intervals to ensure that the $15-billion repair backlog is decreasing; and not continuing to increase.
- Include school conditions as a key part of your party’s provincial campaign platform.
Kind regards,
YOUR NAME
YOUR ADDRESS