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MPP Fee: $46.6-M of Disrepair in Kitchener South-Hespeler Schools

March 22, 2022

Dear MPP Fee,

There is $46.6-million of disrepair in the publicly funded schools in the riding of Kitchener South-Hespeler.

We know that you did not sign the Fix Our Schools Pledge during the 2018 election. However, as we head into another provincial election in June 2022, we trust that safe, healthy, well-maintained school buildings will be a priority for all parties.

We wanted to share the following details of disrepair each school in this riding in the hope that this detailed information would underscore the importance of developing standards of good repair for Ontario schools and also the importance of providing the adequate, stable provincial funding to school boards required for them to meet those new standards and eliminate the $16.8-billion repair backlog (as of June 2021) that plagues Ontario’s schools.

Total disrepair in each publicly funded school in Kitchener South-Hespeler:

Blessed Sacrament  $                   3,568,027
Monsignor Haller Sep S  $                   2,115,082
Our Lady of Fatima Sep S  $                   1,605,250
Our Lady of Grace Sep S  $                   2,569,780
St Aloysius Sep S  $                   3,443,506
St Elizabeth Sep S  $                   1,894,253
St Timothy Sep S  $                   1,864,746
St. Kateri Tekakwitha Sep S  $                   2,308,755
St. Mary’s Catholic Secondary School  $                   1,316,985
Alpine PS  $                      368,772
Brigadoon PS  $                   1,118,018
Centennial PS (C)  $                   1,318,464
Country Hills PS  $                   1,037,516
Doon PS  $                    2,081,495
Glencairn PS  $                    1,021,427
Hespeler PS  $                       410,980
Hillcrest PS  $                       973,643
Howard Robertson PS  $                    2,291,336
Jacob Hespeler SS  $                    1,828,910
Laurentian PS  $                    3,472,084
Pioneer Park PS  $                       327,522
Rockway PS  $                    1,407,229
Silverheights PS  $                    1,424,328
Trillium PS  $                    1,204,277
W.T. Townshend PS  $                         49,960
Wilson Avenue PS  $                    1,751,050
Woodland Park PS  $                       961,092
ÉÉC CardinalLéger  $                    1,194,135
ÉSC PèreRenédeGalinée  $                    1,704,450

School conditions matter. They impact student learning, attendance, and health, and must be a higher priority for our next provincial government than they have been with the current Ford government.

PLEASE NOTE: Fix Our Schools is relying on the most recent disrepair data provided by the Ministry of Education in Fall 2017 and has mapped postal codes provided by the Ministry for each school to riding postal code information from a third party. Therefore, it is possible that there may be small errors in the data provided here and we would be grateful if community members would contact us with any errors. 

Make Schools a Priority in the Provincial Election

March 22, 2022

A provincial election is fast approaching in Ontario, and parties are gearing up. In the coming weeks, we will see a lot of announcements and media coverage, with each party trying to convince us that they are best positioned to govern our province for the coming four years.

As citizens with the power to vote, we must also gear up for the upcoming provincial election. We need to give serious thought to the issues that really matter to us and ensure that those issues are discussed during the election campaign; and that they are included in party platforms as priorities.

Fix Our Schools wants to see a provincial government committed to publicly funded schools and education. Specifically, we are seeking a provincial government that will commit to:

  1. Developing and implementing a provincial standard of good repair for school buildings, portables, and schoolyards that includes not only addressing the $16.8-billion repair backlog but also issues such as: indoor air quality and ventilation; classroom temperatures; water quality; accessibility; environmental efficiency and durability; cleanliness; and asbestos.
  2. Collecting data on all aspects of school infrastructure and comparing that data regularly to the standards in place to ensure these provincial standards are actually being met/exceeded.
  3. Providing adequate, stable provincial funding to ensure that the $16.8-billion repair backlog is eliminated in the coming 5-10 years; and to ensure that the provincial standards are met/exceeded for indoor air quality and ventilation; classroom temperatures; water quality; accessibility; environmental efficiency and durability; cleanliness; and asbestos.

At Fix Our Schools, we believe that:

  • School conditions matter. Taking care of the capital assets we call public schools makes good financial sense, and has also been shown to improve the health, learning, attendance and performance of the learners and workers who spend their days at school. 
  • You can influence the issues that get discussed and prioritized during the upcoming election campaign and that become priorities for the next provincial government.

Here are some actions you can take and questions/messages you can send in the coming months to make it easy for you to have an impact!

Ideas for Action

  • Find out who all your local candidates are by visiting the following links: Green Candidates; Liberal candidates; NDP candidates; PC Candidates
  • Contact all your local candidates via email or phone call to ask questions and let them know that public schools are a priority for you
  • Keep a list of questions for candidates near your front door so anyone in your household can easily ask questions when candidates are door-to-door campaigning
  • Attend local debates and submit questions/ask questions
  • Engage with Fix Our Schools on Twitter and Facebook to amplify our messages and make schools a priority issue

Questions to Ask/Messages to Send to All Candidates

  • Public schools matter to me. I believe that safe, healthy, well-maintained schools, portables and schoolyards are essential. And yet, successive provincial governments have allowed a $16.8-billion repair backlog to accumulate in Ontario’s schools. Our provincial government is responsible for providing adequate funding for schools and disrepair in Ontario’s schools has increased every single year, so I ask you:
  1. What will you do to ensure that every publicly-funded school, portable and schoolyard is safe, healthy, well-maintained and provides an environment conducive to learning and working?
  2. How will you ensure that a standard of good repair for Ontario’s public school infrastructure is developed and implemented? What do you think ought to be included in those standards and what data ought to be collected to ensure these standards are met?
  3. Current provincial funding has meant that disrepair has grown year over year in Ontario’s publicly funded schools and, therefore, has clearly been inadequate for over two decades. The Fix Our Schools campaign believes that an absolute minimum additional yearly investment in school infrastructure of $1.6-B/year is needed – ON TOP of current provincial funding. If elected, would you support this additional annual investment in school infrastructure?

You have the power to make a difference in the coming election. We often hear from people who are nervous about speaking with candidates about their concerns because they are not an “expert” in the subject. We want to assure you that you do not have to be an expert in a topic to bring it up as a concern or priority of yours!

Your local MPP candidates are looking for your vote so you have a lot of power in the coming weeks leading up to the provincial election. And your elected MPP works for you so they should actually be the ones that are nervous about providing you with all the answers you are seeking!

You really do have power to make change!  So in the weeks leading up to the provincial election, take the opportunity to use this power wisely!

MPP Gill: $30.9-M of Disrepair in Milton Schools

March 21, 2022

Dear MPP Gill,

Did you know there is $30.9-million of disrepair in the publicly funded schools in your riding of Milton?

We know that you did not sign the Fix Our Schools Pledge during the 2018 election. However, as we head into another provincial election in June 2022, we expect that safe, healthy, well-maintained school buildings will be a priority for all parties.

We wanted to share the following details of disrepair each school in your riding in the hope that this detailed information would underscore the importance of developing standards of good repair for Ontario schools and also the importance of providing the adequate, stable provincial funding to school boards required for them to meet those new standards and eliminate the $16.8-billion repair backlog (as of June 2021) that plagues Ontario’s schools.

Total disrepair in each publicly funded school in Milton:

Bishop P.F. Reding CSS  $                    5,443,856.00
Guardian Angels CES  $                       351,196.00
Holy Rosary (M) CES  $                       571,598.00
Our Lady of Fatima CES  $                       115,260.00
St. Anthony of Padua CES  $                          41,820.00
St. Peter CES  $                       449,948.00
Brookville PS  $                    2,281,667.00
Bruce Trail PS  $                       349,062.00
Chris Hadfield PS  $                       396,588.00
E W Foster PS  $                    1,178,581.00
Hawthorne Village P.S.  $                       400,566.00
J M Denyes PS  $                    2,976,558.00
Kilbride PS  $                    2,329,680.00
Milton DHS  $                    6,966,857.00
P.L. Robertson PS  $                       172,028.00
Robert Baldwin PS  $                    2,027,024.00
Sam Sherratt PS  $                    1,759,484.00
W I Dick PS  $                    2,162,612.00
ÉÉC SaintNicolas  $                       830,879.00

School conditions matter. They impact student learning, attendance, and health, and must be a higher priority for our next provincial government than they have been with the current Ford government.

PLEASE NOTE: Fix Our Schools is relying on the most recent disrepair data provided by the Ministry of Education in Fall 2017 and has mapped postal codes provided by the Ministry for each school to riding postal code information from a third party. Therefore, it is possible that there may be small errors in the data provided here and we would be grateful if community members would contact us with any errors. 

MPP Lindo: $104.7-M of Disrepair in Kitchener Centre Schools

March 21, 2022

Dear MPP Lindo,

Did you know there is $104.7-million of disrepair in the publicly funded schools in your riding of Kitchener Centre?

In 2018 MPP Lindo signed the Fix Our Schools Pledge to create a Standard of Good Repair for Ontario schools

We commend you for signing the Fix Our Schools Pledge during the election, and making the personal commitment to ensure all Ontario’s schools are safe, healthy, well-maintained buildings that provide environments conducive to learning and working. However, as you know, the Ford government has not done any work towards fulfilling this commitment.

To that end, we are sharing the following details of disrepair in each school in your riding in the hope that this detailed information would underscore the importance of developing standards of good repair for Ontario schools and also the importance of providing the adequate, stable provincial funding to school boards required for them to meet those new standards and eliminate the $16.8-billion repair backlog (as of June 2021) that plagues Ontario’s schools:

Total disrepair in each publicly funded school in Kitchener Centre:

Canadian Martyrs Sep S  $                        2,894,362
Saint John Paul II  $                             84,760
St Anne, Kitchener  $                        4,390,316
St Bernadette Sep S  $                        2,784,761
St Daniel Sep S  $                        2,899,734
St John Sep S  $                           393,943
St Paul Sep S  $                        3,705,460
St Teresa, Kitchener  $                        3,513,003
A R Kaufman PS  $                        1,200,287
Cameron Heights CI  $                     14,426,009
Courtland Avenue PS  $                        2,776,832
Crestview PS  $                        2,526,898
Eastwood CI  $                        3,919,574
Forest Heights CI  $                        7,328,102
Forest Hill PS  $                        2,117,486
Franklin PS  $                        2,246,590
Grand River CI  $                     10,402,018
J.F. Carmichael PS  $                        1,799,039
King Edward PS  $                        4,086,025
KitchenerWaterloo C & VS  $                        3,809,137
Lackner Woods PS  $                             10,000
Mackenzie King PS  $                        1,682,377
Margaret Avenue PS  $                        3,747,662
Prueter PS  $                        2,256,150
Queen Elizabeth PS  $                        1,039,648
Queensmount PS  $                        2,726,646
Rosemount  $                        1,803,989
Sheppard PS  $                        1,932,329
Smithson PS  $                        2,508,744
Southridge PS  $                        2,618,148
Stanley Park PS  $                        3,086,594
Suddaby PS  $                        2,205,351
Sunnyside PS  $                        1,788,392

School conditions matter. They impact student learning, attendance, and health, and must be a higher priority for our next provincial government than they have been with the current Ford government.

PLEASE NOTE: Fix Our Schools is relying on the most recent disrepair data provided by the Ministry of Education in Fall 2017 and has mapped postal codes provided by the Ministry for each school to riding postal code information from a third party. Therefore, it is possible that there may be small errors in the data provided here and we would be grateful if community members would contact us with any errors. 

MPP Hassan: $185.4-M of Disrepair in York South-Weston Schools

March 21, 2022

Dear MPP Hassan,

Did you know there is $185.4-million of disrepair in the publicly funded schools in your riding of York South-Weston?

In 2018 MPP Hassan signed the Fix Our Schools Pledge to create a Standard of Good Repair for Ontario schools

We commend you for signing the Fix Our Schools Pledge during the election, and making the personal commitment to ensure all Ontario’s schools are safe, healthy, well-maintained buildings that provide environments conducive to learning and working. However, as you know, the Ford government has not done any work towards fulfilling this commitment.

To that end, we are sharing the following details of disrepair in each school in your riding in the hope that this detailed information would underscore the importance of developing standards of good repair for Ontario schools and also the importance of providing the adequate, stable provincial funding to school boards required for them to meet those new standards and eliminate the $16.8-billion repair backlog (as of June 2021) that plagues Ontario’s schools:

Total disrepair in each publicly funded school in York South-Weston:

ÉÉP MathieudaCosta  $                         2,894,075
Blessed Archbishop Romero CSS (Lease from TDSB  Bill30)  $                         8,365,007
Chaminade College S  $                         3,261,022
Immaculate Conception CS  $                            263,741
Our Lady of Victory CS  $                             343,381
Santa Maria CS  $                          1,461,426
St Bernard CS  $                          3,030,420
St Fidelis S  $                         2,652,062
St Francis Xavier CS  $                         2,073,603
Amesbury MS  $                       13,826,803
Bala Avenue CS  $                         4,617,758
Brookhaven PS  $                         2,694,659
C R Marchant MS  $                         7,106,229
Charles E Webster PS  $                         3,863,016
Cordella Jr PS  $                         2,860,281
Dennis Avenue CS  $                         4,348,257
Frank Oke SS  $                         5,835,420
George Anderson PS  $                         2,838,231
George Harvey CI  $                       15,976,249
George Syme CS  $                         3,547,553
Gracefield PS  $                         3,495,846
Haney Centre  $                             489,404
Harwood PS  $                          4,524,459
Keelesdale Jr PS  $                          3,756,309
Lambton Park CS  $                           1,781,739
Maple Leaf PS  $                           5,860,104
Pelmo Park PS  $                           3,608,145
Portage Trail CS  $                           1,966,373
Rockcliffe MS  $                           8,706,720
Roselands Jr PS  $                           4,030,191
Silverthorn Community School  $                           8,818,390
Weston CI  $                         19,936,252
Weston Memorial Jr PS  $                           4,715,950
York Humber HS  $                           5,878,538
York Memorial CI  $                         15,942,689

School conditions matter. They impact student learning, attendance, and health, and must be a higher priority for our next provincial government than they have been with the current Ford government.

PLEASE NOTE: Fix Our Schools is relying on the most recent disrepair data provided by the Ministry of Education in Fall 2017 and has mapped postal codes provided by the Ministry for each school to riding postal code information from a third party. Therefore, it is possible that there may be small errors in the data provided here and we would be grateful if community members would contact us with any errors. 

MPP Stevens: $122.2-M of Disrepair in St. Catharines Schools

March 21, 2022

Dear MPP Stevens,

Did you know there is $122.2-million of disrepair in the publicly funded schools in your riding of St. Catharines? We know that you did not sign the Fix Our Schools Pledge during the 2018 election. However, as we head into another provincial election in June 2022, we trust that safe, healthy, well-maintained school buildings will be a priority for all parties.

We wanted to share the following details of disrepair each school in your riding in the hope that this detailed information would underscore the importance of developing standards of good repair for Ontario schools and also the importance of providing the adequate, stable provincial funding to school boards required for them to meet those new standards and eliminate the $16.8-billion repair backlog (as of June 2021) that plagues Ontario’s schools.

Total disrepair in each publicly funded school in St. Catharines:

ÉÉP L’Héritage  $                   2,274,325
Applewood PS  $                      660,399
Burleigh Hill PS  $                   1,205,598
Carleton PS  $                   3,426,126
Connaught PS  $                   2,532,686
Dalewood PS  $                   5,004,884
DSBN Academy  $                      565,202
E I McCulley PS  $                   1,494,230
Eden HS  $                   4,838,635
Ferndale PS  $                   2,443,313
Governor Simcoe SS  $                      834,615
Gracefield PS  $                   1,142,104
Grapeview PS  $                       294,977
Jeanne Sauve PS  $                    4,178,532
Laura Secord SS  $                    3,235,745
Lifetime Learning Centre  $                          23,737
Lincoln Centennial PS  $                     3,513,458
Lockview PS  $                        966,307
Parnall PS  $                     1,942,761
Pine Grove PS  $                        180,540
Port Weller PS  $                     1,372,891
Prince of Wales PS  $                     1,629,781
Prince Philip PS  $                     3,611,429
Sir Winston Churchill SS  $                     3,914,750
St Catharines Collegiate SS  $                        246,514
William Hamilton Merritt PS  $                     3,077,740
Woodland PS  $                     1,355,114
Assumption Catholic E S  $                     1,010,492
Canadian Martyrs Catholic E S  $                     5,945,753
Denis Morris Catholic High School  $                   17,019,472
Holy Cross  $                   15,637,053
Mother Teresa Catholic E S  $                         134,663
Our Lady of Fatima Catholic E S (s)  $                         969,638
Saint Francis Catholic S S  $                      3,194,891
St Alfred Catholic E S  $                      4,637,424
St Ann Catholic E S (s)  $                         218,718
St Christopher Catholic E S  $                          587,769
St Denis Catholic E S  $                       3,825,672
St James Catholic E S  $                       3,234,323
St Nicholas Catholic E S  $                       3,398,640
St Theresa Catholic E S  $                       2,315,753
ÉÉC ImmaculéeConception  $                       3,011,870
ÉÉC SainteMargueriteBourgeoys  St.Catharines  $                       1,107,999

School conditions matter. They impact student learning, attendance, and health, and must be a higher priority for our next provincial government than they have been with the current Ford government.

PLEASE NOTE: Fix Our Schools is relying on the most recent disrepair data provided by the Ministry of Education in Fall 2017 and has mapped postal codes provided by the Ministry for each school to riding postal code information from a third party. Therefore, it is possible that there may be small errors in the data provided here and we would be grateful if community members would contact us with any errors. 

MPP Smith: $93.9-M of Disrepair in Peterborough-Kawartha Schools

March 20, 2022

Dear MPP Smith,

Did you know there is $93.9-million of disrepair in the publicly funded schools in your riding of Peterborough-Kawartha?

We know that you did not sign the Fix Our Schools Pledge during the 2018 election. However, as we head into another provincial election in June 2022, we trust that safe, healthy, well-maintained school buildings will be a priority for all parties.

We wanted to share the following details of disrepair each school in your riding in the hope that this detailed information would underscore the importance of developing standards of good repair for Ontario schools and also the importance of providing the adequate, stable provincial funding to school boards required for them to meet those new standards and eliminate the $16.8-billion repair backlog (as of June 2021) that plagues Ontario’s schools.

Total disrepair in each publicly funded school in Peterborough-Kawartha:

Coe Hill School  $                  1,503,002.00
Earl Prentice Public School  $                  2,960,020.00
Marmora Senior Public School  $                  2,227,200.00
Adam Scott C & VI (Sec)  $                  4,733,834.00
Apsley Central PS  $                       23,000.00
Armour Heights PS  $                  1,427,357.00
Buckhorn PS  $                     274,034.00
Chemong PS  $                  2,168,273.00
Edmison Heights PS  $                  1,640,408.00
HavelockBelmont PS  $                  2,264,228.00
Highland Heights PS  $                  1,146,147.00
James Strath PS  $                  1,884,326.00
Kawartha Heights PS  $                  1,078,781.00
Keith Wightman PS  $                  1,172,936.00
Kenner C & VI  $               16,908,929.00
King George PS  $                     947,289.00
Lakefield Intermed S  $                  1,174,516.00
Norwood District HS  $                  3,502,985.00
Norwood District PS  $                  2,690,299.00
Otonabee Valley PS  $                  2,093,932.00
Peterborough C & VS  $                  2,204,200.00
Prince of Wales PS  $                  2,619,570.00
Queen Elizabeth PS  $                  3,027,052.00
Queen Mary PS  $                  1,560,730.00
R F Downey PS  $                     535,773.00
Ridpath PS  $                  1,483,979.00
Roger Neilson PS  $                     257,500.00
Thomas A Stewart SS  $                  4,105,740.00
Warsaw PS  $                  1,242,480.00
Westmount PS  $                  2,709,301.00
Holy Cross CSS  $                  1,438,738.00
Immaculate Conception  $                  1,323,909.00
Monsignor O`Donoghue  $                     375,435.00
St John, Peterborough  $                  1,594,613.00
St. Alphonsus  $                  1,760,930.00
St. Anne  $                  1,713,893.00
St. Catherine  $                     950,850.00
St. Joseph, Douro  $                     877,854.00
St. Martin  $                     913,805.00
St. Patrick  $                  1,247,860.00
St. Paul, Lakefield  $                     611,802.00
St. Paul, Norwood  $                     144,200.00
St. Paul, Peterborough  $                  1,445,317.00
St. Peter CSS  $                  2,805,213.00
St. Teresa  $                  1,783,082.00
Bobcaygeon PS  $                       74,011.00
Lady Eaton ES  $                  1,118,644.00
Scott Young PS  $                     530,510.00
ÉÉC MonseigneurJamot  $                  1,572,123.00

School conditions matter. They impact student learning, attendance, and health, and must be a higher priority for our next provincial government than they have been with the current Ford government.

PLEASE NOTE: Fix Our Schools is relying on the most recent disrepair data provided by the Ministry of Education in Fall 2017 and has mapped postal codes provided by the Ministry for each school to riding postal code information from a third party. Therefore, it is possible that there may be small errors in the data provided here and we would be grateful if community members would contact us with any errors. 

School Magazine’s “Fordwatch – Education”

March 9, 2022

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 that sharing this review of the Ford government’s actions, policies and decisions relative to schools and education over the past four years would be helpful.

With this in mind, we are sharing here an exact reprint of School Magazine’s FORDWATCH – EDUCATION. We encourage you to read and to share with your networks.

It contains headlines and links to all the stories we’ve followed over the past – nearly 4 – years. If you need information about the damage Doug Ford and his cronies have brought upon this one crucial service of government, you’ll find it below. It’s been vetted by 14 friends of the magazine who have kindly suggested edits and other information to include.

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FORDWATCH – EDUCATION – THE 2022 ELECTION EDITION 

Curriculum

Cancelled writing teams for Indigenous peoples’ curriculum– sending elders and educators home at the last minute and contravening Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action #62 and 63. July 9, 2018   Source: CBC. Note: there has been some discussion of reconvening some of form of writing team – nothing to date has come of it.

Rolled sexual education curriculum back to 1998 – Teachers were no longer permitted to use the 2015 sexual education curriculum due to complaints by social conservatives supporting Ford. A “snitch line” was set up by the government for parents to identify teachers not complying with new rule. It led to lawsuits from Canadian Civil Liberties Association and Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario over rights of children to be accepted for their gender identity and for teachers to teach.   July 11, 2018  Source: Globe and Mail

    • Introduced the “new” sexual education curriculum pretty much the same as the old one. August 21, 2019 Source: The Conversation
    • Allowed parents to exempt their children from sex-ed curriculum. August 21, 2019  Source: CBC news

Introduced new Math curriculum after criticizing – without basis- the old one for being too discovery oriented, even though there’s no mention of discovery learning in the curriculum. Despite being labelled as “back-to- basics” the new one includes social-emotional learning skills in mathematics, along with number sense algebra, financial literacy among other topics.  June 23, 2020  Source: CBC news

    • Also includes memorizing times tables, learning about finances, simple coding, changing some of the major themes in Math November 26, 2020 Source:  The Conversation
    • Removed the section of the Math curriculum that acknowledged its use to bolster racism:  “mathematics has been used to normalize racism and marginalization of no-Eurocentric mathematical knowledges… “ July 14, 2021 Source: Global News
    • Ford government did nothing to equip teachers with the technology needed to teach the coding portion of the new Math curriculum January 3, 2021, Source Fix Our Schools

Online learning

Brought in e-learning with 4 mandatory credits in high school before teens can graduate. The Minister of Education, Lisa Thompson said it was so kids could put “their best foot forward.” March 25, 2019  Source: Toronto Star. See also School Magazine

    • Later, backed down to mandate just 2 courses online. November 21, 2019 Source: Toronto Star
    • The idea was that the Ministry would set up a an “entity” to create and deliver online courses and push school boards to offer more of them.

Ontario could make online learning a permanent part of school. The presidents of OSSTF and ETFO both confirmed that they had staff attend a meeting with the ministry where the idea was discussed. Harvey Bischoff, OSSTF’s president, told Global News the creation of a standalone infrastructure by TVO for secondary school online courses was also brought up. Bischoff also pointed to a leaked document from the ministry last year which spoke of maximizing revenue generation from the provincial school system. ETFO called the idea an ‘attack on public education.’ March 25, 2021   Source: Global News 

Buildings

Cut $ 100 million funding from Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund for school repairs to improve energy efficiency –Schools across Ontario face a $15.9 billion backlog in repairs. July 10, 2018  Source: CBC News

    • Cut was reversed soon after

Schools across the province face major repair costs due to long term underfunding. October 2, 2018 Source: School Magazine

Government offers to spend $13 billion over next decade to repair schools. Repair costs for schools are about $16.3 billion. July 22, 2019  Source: CBC News and see School Magazine

    • Throughout this time the Ford government has refused to be transparent about the state of disrepair in Ontario schools – data collected with taxpayers’ dollars July 8, 2021  Source: Fix Our Schools

    • Wynne’s Liberals tried to hide the size of the maintenance backlog for years. It was uncovered by Krista Wylie of Fix our Schools in about 2015 who did some financial sleuthing to uncover the $15 B school repair backlog that the Liberals were hiding. A report that Hugh Mackenzie wrote in November 2017 showed the Liberals had allowed that backlog to grow from $5.6 B to $15.9 B between 2003 and 2018. See Krista Wylie’s article in School Magazine February 2019

Cuts

Pulled $500 000 from Toronto after-school music project for 275 at-risk youth – August 23, 2018   Source: Toronto Star

Paused the Parents Reaching Out Program (PRO) – Programme provided grants for local parent councils to hold meetings and run community events like Math nights October 22, 2018  Source: CBC

Cancelled over $300 million in funding for expansion of university and college campuses in Brampton, Milton and Markham – October 23, 2018  Source: CBC

Cut $25 million from the Education Programs- Other fund which provided program money for students at risk like paying older students to tutor younger ones – December 16, 2018  Source: Global News

Began the 2019-20 budget discussions with a call for $1 billion cut from $24 billion education budget –December 17, 2018  Source: School Magazine

      • Went on to cut Local Priorities Fund worth $325.4 million as well as Cost Adjustment fund to supplement costs of education workers ($63.6 million) along with Human Resource Transition Supplement  to assist with staffing changes($10 million)

TDSB faced $67.9 million in cuts for the 2019-21 budget and took bites out of equity, international languages, school budgets, student support and cut 310 jobs  – September 5, 2019 Source: School Magazine

With revenues up and deficit down Ford government continued its austerity plans November 6, 2019  Source CCPA

Ontario government memo hinted at thousands of teachers and education workers’ layoffs for the 2021-2022 school year. Deputy Education Minister Nancy Naylor’s memo, dated February 26, 2021, told school boards not to count on the $1.6 billion “one-time” funding for COVID-19 support that was provided for 2020-2021. March 6, 2021  Source: CityNews

Budget confirmed $1 billion in cuts to education, Ontario school boards say. The 2021 budget included almost no new education spending, with reported increases likely to be below the rate of inflation. March 24, 2021   Source: Press Progress

Grants for students needs have been falling comparatively since 2011-12. If you compare figures for basic schools funding translating numbers to 2021 dollars. May 14, 2021  Source: School Magazine

Ford government spent $2.6 billion less than planned in the first quarter of 2021  September 16, 2021  Source: Fix Our Schools

With November economic update, Ford cut half a billion dollars from Ontario schools November 4, 2021  Source: Press Progress.  This is in spite of increased revenues for the province. November 29, 2021  Source School Magazine- CCPA

Early years

Proposed to change child care rules to increase the number of children allowed in home daycares. December 7, 2021 Source: Global News

Cut child care across the province by over $80 million – May 1 2019. Source:Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care

    • Cut fund that helped keep low income parents’ fees down June 3, 2019 Source: Hamilton Spectator
    • Cut child care funding to Toronto child care centres $15 million then reduced to $5 million October 26, 2019 Source: CBC
    • Thousands of planned child care spaces were put in limbo by these cuts – 51 projects in Toronto alone
    • Announced $234.6 million funding for safer child care centres during COVID-19, but it was really Federal money it was using.  August 6, 2020  Source: NOW Magazine

Ford said he wouldn’t guarantee full day kindergarten beyond 2019– January 30, 2019  Source: CBC

    • Minister Stephen Lecce committed to full-day kindergarten in bargaining with teachers – though union said there was nothing explicit about this in collective agreement language. February 6, 2020 Source: CBC

Stephen Lecce looked for more money from Ottawa to help pay for full day kindergarten as Ford government held up the fed’s plan for $10 a day daycare. November 15, 2021.  Source: Globe and Mail.

    • Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario says the government doesn’t understand the difference between day care and full-day kindergarten and questions whether it will protect the programme. November 16, 2021 Source: ETFO

Class size

Increased average class sizes by 1 – grades 4-8 and 6 for grades 9 to 12. March 15, 2019  Source: IPolitics

    • Public schools to lose over 10 000 teachers over 5 years with savings to government of $2.8 billion – September 26, 2019 Source: CBC
    • Education Minister Lisa Thompson said this would improve students’ “resiliency”
    • School board began to send out surplus notices to teachers and cut high school course offerings – September 5, 2019 Source: School Magazine
    • For Fall of 2019 average high school classes were set at 22.5 By March 2020 Minister Lecce was saying that average high school class sizes would be 23. For elementary average sizes would be 24.5   March 6, 2020 Source: School Magazine
    • TDSB class-size increases would force it to cancel 313 high-school courses. Some other courses will have larger class sizes or combined grades and levels.  Services like library and guidance reduced. May 17, 2019  Source: CP 24

Considered removing kindergarten and primary class size caps – no final decision made about that- so this is worth watching. January 23, 2019  Source: CBC

Post secondary

Scrapped Ontario’s first -ever French-language university costing about $80 million and focusing on technology, business and health sciences – November 19, 2018   Source: CTV News

    • Changed course a year later and asked Ottawa for half of the required $126 million – September 5, 2019 Source: Sudbury Star

Reduced post-secondary tuition fees by 10 percent without any plans to fund the schools that will bear the cost. At the same time eliminated free tuition for lowest income students.February 4, 2019 Source: CBC

    • Students lose 6-month grace period for starting to pay back loans.

Ford made student fees, like student union dues, optional – then described student union activities as “crazy Marxist nonsense.” February 11, 2019  Source: Toronto Star

    • Student groups faced shortfalls: Campus daycares, newspapers, food banks, aboriginal programs, among them
    • The move was quashed by Ontario Divisional Court – November 21, 2019  Source: CBC
    • The government requested an appeal on the decision – no ruling yet. April 8, 2021  Source: Excaliber

Proposed to tie post secondary funding to “performance outcomes” like graduate earning. At the same time it decreased funding by 1 percent annually. April 11, 2019  Source: CBC News

Required teacher candidates to pass a Math Proficiency Test in to get teaching certificate – assumed that poor Math scores meant that teacher didn’t know basic Math. Mar 25, 2020 Source: School Magazine

    • EQAO developed the test – call for tenders went out inviting private companies to bid on administering the test.

Laurentian University faced insolvency  – cut 100 professors and 80 staff on April 12. June 3, 2021 Source: CBC

Autism

Froze Ontario Autism Programme waiting list refusing to move any more children in to the previous Liberal government’ Needs Based Program.  February 26, 2019. Source: Toronto Star

Children taken off the waitlist – parents not told. Waitlist was frozen for students needing autism treatment in Fall of 2018. This was in spite of the fact that there was room for more children. February 25, 2019  Source: Ottawa Citizen

Underfunding of services for autism

    • Money was to go to families rather than service providers
    • Funding was not based on need, but age
    • Overall amount provided was capped at $20 000/year for kids up to age 6 and $5 000 /year for those from 6-18
    • Maximum amount was capped at $140 000 per student’s childhood. Therapy costs run to about $80 000 / year June 19, 2019 Source: Ipolitics and School Magazine
    • Ford government then budgeted $600 million for the autism programme, something that would leave 23 000 children waiting for services. By July 2020 the waitlist had grown to 27 600. July 21, 2020 Source: CBC News
    • The government proposed a new funding model that would be based on need – by 2021. Parents said it was not needs- based and at a maximum of $65 000 / year – not enough to cover costs January 24, 2020 Source: Toronto Star and CTV news

Currently:

Friends of Ford

Hired unsuccessful Tory candidate, Cameron Montgomery to $140 000 p.a. job chairing board of Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO)  Predecessor earned @ $4 000 p.a.  – February 19, 2019  Source: Toronto Star

Action against the Ford government

150 000 students across Ontario walked out of class for an hour, protesting increased class sizes, e-learning and losing variety of courses on offer. April 4, 2019  Source: Toronto Star 

Thousands rallied at Queen’s Park to protest education cuts. Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation President Harvey Bischof said the Minister of Education should listen to the students and that our education system needs investment, not cuts.  April 6, 2019  Source: Toronto Star

Parents and teachers organize.  Throughout 2018 – 2019 parent groups across the province began to organize actions to protest Ford government cuts and support teachers. Some of these include:

Labour relations and job actions

Teacher contract talks hit snag. Ford  government wants to remove many items from local bargaining, moving them to be negotiated centrally, taking away local solutions to issues that have local impacts. May 24, 2019   Source: Globe and Mail

New Minister of Education, Stephen Lecce, announced that high school class sizes will not be as large as anticipated for 2019-20. August 22, 2019. Source: CBC News.

    • He did not say they wouldn’t rise to this level in future
    • Ford government continued to use this as a reason to dig its heels in on further concessions, like cost of living increase for teachers and eliminating cuts, saying it’s done enough.

Elementary teachers’ union asked for conciliation in bargaining with province and school boards amid growing frustrations at the negotiating table, the union says.  October 16, 2019 Source: Toronto Star

    • Ontario elementary school teachers vote 98 per cent in favour of strike action. November 1, 2019 Source: Toronto Star
    • Ontario’s public high school teachers vote for strike action. November 18, 2019  Source: CBC
    • English Catholic school teacher union (OECTA)  vote for strike action. November 13, 2019    Source: CBC

Ontario public elementary teachers began a work to rule campaign which would target ministry and school board administrative tasks.  November 14, 2019, Source: CTV News

Ontario backed down on online high school courses – cut requirement from 4 to 2.    November 21, 2019   Source: Toronto Star  Doesn’t take away the problems with e-learning See School Magazine

Ontario public high school teachers held 1-day strike after contract talks stalled. December 4, 2019  Source: Global News

    • Secondary teachers held another day of strike action December 11, 2019 after talks broke off between the government and OSSTF and struck 3 more days in various locations during December and January

Ontario elementary teachers ramped up their work-to-rule campaign by not planning any new field trips or distributing letters or memos from schools and boards.  December 7, 2019 Source: Toronto Star

    • Elementary teachers stopped spending their own money on schools supplies, and filling out comments on report cards
    • Stopped supervising extra-curricular activities or field trips in an escalation of their work-to-rule campaign on January 9, 2020

Teachers unions challenged Bill 124 “Protecting a Sustainable Public Sector for Future Generations Act” which caps public sector wage increases to 1 percent for 3 years December 12, 2019  Source: Global News

Waterloo Public School Board postponed EQAO test after Education Minister Stephen Lecce announced that school boards could make their own decisions on whether to conduct the test in January or in June since the work-to-rule high school campaign includes not preparing students for EQAO. January 9, 2020 Source: Globalnews.ca 

Teachers held a series of day-long strikes across the province protesting lack of progress in contract talks, underfunding education, lack of written assurance that full day kindergarten would be maintained, lack of special education support, increases to class size. For the first time in more than 20 years all teachers’ unions in Ontario are involved in job action.

    • AEFO began work to rule campaign January 16, 2020
    • Elementary s teachers stages rotating strikes during week of January 20. There are still no bargaining talks scheduled.
    • All Catholic teachers across the province went out on a day-long strike January 21, 2020
    • ETFO held 2 province-wide walkouts February 6 and 11, 2020
    • AEFO held its first province-wide walkout Februay 13, 2020
    • All teachers unions walked out across the province – largest in Ontario since 1997 February 21, 2020

Source for above: Global News

Ontario offered to back down on class sizes if teachers agree to wage cap. OSSTF president Harvey Bishoff said Stephen Lecce had not presented the new proposals to his union but in a press conference while exploratory talks were underway. March 4, 2020  Source: CBC and see School Magazine

Agreements:

    • OECTA reached tentative deal with province March 12, 2020
    • ETFO reached tentative deal with province March 20, 2020
    • AEFO reached tentative deal with province March 31, 2020
    • OSSTF reached tentative deal with province April 20, 2020

Source for above: Global News

Ford government revoked Bill 274. Under the bill boards hired new staff from a pool of teachers based on seniority October 19, 2020   Source: CBC News and see School Magazine

Teacher Unions challenge Bill 254 limiting 3rd party election funding. Bill limits amount that may be spent by third party groups while increasing the amount that may be donated to individual candidates. April 28, 2021. Source: Toronto Star

    • Tories lose the challenge in court, but after a marathon weekend debate, use the “notwithstanding clause” in Charter of Rights and Freedoms to override the  court’s decision. June 14, 2021  Source: CBC   and see School Magazine

Toronto’s Catholic elementary teachers planned strike at one or more schools on Monday. Union local TECT says that its roughly 5 000 members have been without a contract since September 2019.  January 26, 2022. Source: CTV News

  • Later put plan on pause.

Ontario will be the first province to release the names of teachers and child-care workers facing serious charges or convicted of crimes, raising concerns about ruined reputations when cases are dropped or educators are found not guilty. February 8, 2022, Source: thestar.com 

COVID-19

Ontario schools shut down for 2 weeks after March break 2020. They remained closed after April 12 for the remainder of the school year as school boards scrambled to develop online learning programs while the Ministry of Education scrapped EQAO testing and parents struggled to make sense of loss of work, child care and unheard of restrictions on movement during the first weeks of this 20 month crisis. March 13, 2020 Source: Hamilton Spectator and CTV News

Class sizes vital to curbing the spread of COVID-19 in schools Sick Kids experts said. August 7, 2020  Source: Toronto Star

Premier, education minister defended Ontario’s back-to-school-plans amid class size concerns. No caps for class sizes from grades 4-8 which could be as high as 30 students. August 7, 2020  Source: CBC News

Ministry of Education’s back-to-school plan underfunded sketchy and late. Boards told to rewrite plans shortly before school opened – efforts to reduce class sizes squashed. August 16, 2020 Source: School Magazine

Ontario raises school board funding for COVID costs but unions say the back-to-school plan is unsafe. Ministry of Education announced $50 million for improved ventilation and $18 million for online learning. Boards dip into their reserve funds to cover costs.  August 13, 2020, Source: Toronto Star

TDSB back-to-school plan to shrink class sizes rejected by ministry of education. August 16, 2020, Source: CBC News

Teachers’ unions asked Ontario for workplace safety orders as schools set to reopen. Called for standards that kept class sizes at 15-20 students. August 25, 2020, Source: CP24

Ontario school bus drivers ask for COVID-19 safety protocols ahead of the start of the school year. August 25, 2020. Source CTV News

Money the Ford government appeared to give for safe return to school is actually much less. Much of it came from federal government and boards own reserves. August 28, 2020.  Source: School Magazine   and see Press Progress August 19, 2020

Teachers’ unions take province to labour board over workplace safety as first day of school approaches. August 31, 2020, Source: CTV News  

    • Ford says his patience is “running thin “with teachers as he opens up a war of words

Community rallied for paid sick days. Ford government was stalling on bringing them out. September 1, 2020  Source: School Magazine

Privately run learning pods emerged as parents worried about sending kids to in-person school. Parents trying to avoid infection for their children as well as online learning – at a cost. September 9, 2020  Source: School Magazine

More Toronto parents switched kids to online learning after uptick in COVID-19 cases. As new COVID-19 cases spiked to 313 in Ontario, 72 000 students looked for online learning. September 15, 2020   Source: CP24

Some school boards introduced a “blended hybrid “model for teaching. Teacher teaches students in class while others watch online from home. October 16, 2020 Source: School Magazine

Doug Ford ignored health experts advice three time about how keep Ontario safe during COVID. Repeatedly opted for looser COVID measures in long term care, hospitals and schools. November 16, 2020Source: Press Progress

Ontario urged to expand testing of school staff and students – especially in COVID-19 hot spots -after the first site in Toronto uncovered 19 cases at one elementary school on the first sample group that was tested. November 30, 2020   Source: Toronto Star

With record breaking infection rates and ICU numbers peaking throughout November and December – Ford government announced a total lockdown – including schools. Lockdown scheduled for December 26. Students in North expected to return January 11, 2021, Students in South expected to return January 25, 2021.   December 20, 2020   Source: CBC News 

Internal government documents show how Ontario ‘watered down’ its strategies to keep COVID-19 out of classrooms. Proposals for safety measures did not come to fruition upon Fall school openings related to testing, symptom screening and class sizes  January 21, 2021   Source: Toronto Star

Confusion abounds re money spent for safe return to school and criteria for number of cases in the community. February 2, 2021  Source: School Magazine

Schools in Peel, Toronto and York to remain closed until February 16. February 3, 2021 Source: CTV News

Did Ford government hire extra staff to keep schools a bit safer? It claimed that it put aside money to hire extra teachers, custodians and public health nurses, but refused a freedom of information request from CUPE to see how many people were actually hired.  February 5, 2021  Source: Global News

Teachers, education unions criticize Ford government’s move to delay March break. The Ontario School Board Council of Union’s president, Laura Walton, said Minister Lecce failed to implement some pandemic safety measures in schools  February 12, 2021, Source: CBC News

Memo from the Ministry of Education warns boards not to expect more COVID money for 2021-22 and to consider laying off extra staff. March 18, 2021. Source: School Magazine

Check out this analysis of board-by -board pandemic funding for schools by Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives –  Author Ricardo Tranjan.  March 23 2021. Source: CCPA

Government gave money directly to parents to cover incidental expenses rather than putting it into schools and daycares. Three payouts made over 2020-2021. March 24, 2021 Source: CBC

Peel schools ordered closed despite Ford government’s “firm belief” they should remain open. This is as the third wave hits the province. Toronto, along with Wellington, Dufferin and Guelph followed suit shortly after. April 5, 2021    Source: CTV News

Ford announced schools will remain closed indefinitely the day after Education Minister Stephen Lecce says they will remain open. April 12, 2021, Source: CP24

Education Minister Stephen Lecce said that COVID-19 was not spreading in school – despite internal ministry documents saying it didn’t know if this was true. It took a freedom-of-information request to find this out. Lecce was making statements about school being safe – but didn’t know what he was talking about. June 1, 2021  Source: Toronto Star

Schools closed until September 2021. Outdoor graduation ceremonies allowed in-person with distancing. Ford considering earlier back-to-school date. June 2, 2021. Source CTV News

Globe and Mail named Ford’s pandemic response the worst of Canada’s premiers June 3, 2021  Source: Globe and Mail

    • Students out of class for about 20 weeks while COVID continued to spread
    • Ford’s lack of leadership and inability to make decisions failed Ontario’s children Source: Fix Our Schools

Ford government released back-to-school plan just over a month before school was slated to open August 3, 2021 Source: CBC News   also see School Magazine

Ontario’s directives or return to school called “hoping and praying” August 10, 2021  Source Fix Our Schools

Ventilation improvements in schools could have been done sooner, if funding had been provided earlier and with more direction  August 17, 2021 Source: Fix Our Schools

    • Plan lacked targets for ventilation and measures for assessing them

Ford leaves it to hospitals and schools to have a plan for vaccination without mandating it by the Ontario government. August 17, 2021. Source: CBC News

    • Stephen Lecce said that 50 000 education workers could be terminated for lack of vaccination – something that Education critic Marit Stiles called “utter fiction” October 27, 2021 Source: Ottawa Citizen

Because of federal election, Ford prorogued the legislature as Ontario schools prepared to return to class for first time since April 2021.  September 3, 2021 Source: Toronto Sun

Ford wouldn’t impose mandatory vaccination of Ontario healthcare workers. Says it could cause departure of “tens of thousands of heath care workers. November 3, 2021  Source: CBC News

Ford said it’s too soon to be sure whether or not schools will reopen after holiday break, as case counts rise and many schools close due to COVID-19 Omicron variant. Five days before Ontario students were set to return to school, no word had come from the Ministry of Education, whether schools would be open or not. December 17, 2021 Source: CTV News

Ontario Government limited who can and who cannot get PCR tests December 30, 2021   Source: CTV News

Ontario’s new pandemic strategy risks uncontrolled transmission – according to epidemiologists. Reducing isolation times, opening schools and restricting testing contributing factors. December 31, 2021  Source: CBC News

Days before schools are set to re-open, Doug Ford announced this will be postponed to Wednesday January 5, 2022, December 30, 2021  Source: Toronto Star  

“Bracing for Impact” Ford closes schools until January 17. January 3, 2022  Source: CTV News and School Magazine

Ontario schools will resume in-class learning on Jan. 17, premier’s office says. Doris Grinspun, CEO of the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario, said to prioritize schools, the province should have brought in more closures to rein in Omicron’s spread. Since that didn’t happen, reopening schools “will exacerbate the situation” in hospitals. January 10, 2022  Source: Toronto Star

Parents won’t be notified of COVID outbreak in schools until 30 percent of kids are absent from school. That threshold won’t automatically trigger school closure.  January 12, 2022  Source: CTV News

    • Parents not automatically notified if their children are exposed to a COVID case
    • If a child show symptoms isolation times depend on vaccination, status and number of symptoms
    • Student eligible for free PCR test only if they develop symptoms at school
    • Children and staff in childcare and schools each to receive 2 Rapid Antigen Tests (RAT)
    • 10 million non-fitted masks for school staff
    • 4 million 3-ply masks for students
    • Province to set up school based vaccination clinics
    • Hiring 2000 extra teachers to fill in for absent staff.

January 12 , 2022  Source: CTV News 

Elementary teachers federation calls on Ford government to address concerns:

  • failure to reinstate monitoring
  • absence of a robust testing procedure
  • low vaccination rate in 5-11 year-olds
  • need for a plan to address staff absences
  • ability of education workers to get boosters

January 12, 2022  Source: ETFO

New school reporting system needs details, boards say. The Ontario Public School Board’s Association is urging the ministry to find a way to give parents clearer information of what is happening in schools regarding COVID cases.  January 25, 2022.  Source: Toronto Star

Toronto teachers refused to work in school as protest to Covid safety conditions. Teachers from Bloor CI staged a work refusal and stayed in school parking list until Ministry of Labour inspected the school. January 27, 2022 Source: Toronto Star

MPP Karahalios: $93-M of Disrepair in Cambridge Schools

March 7, 2022

Dear MPP Karahalios,

Did you know there is $93-million of disrepair in the publicly funded schools in your riding of Cambridge?

We know that you did not sign the Fix Our Schools Pledge during the 2018 election. However, as we head into another provincial election in June 2022, we trust that safe, healthy, well-maintained school buildings will be a priority for all parties.

We are sharing the following details of disrepair in each school in your riding in the hope that this detailed information would underscore the importance of developing standards of good repair for Ontario schools and also the importance of providing the adequate, stable provincial funding to school boards required for them to meet those new standards and eliminate the $16.8-billion repair backlog (as of June 2021) that plagues Ontario’s schools:

Total disrepair in each publicly funded school in Cambridge Riding:

Glen Morris Central PS  $                                           1,526,720
St GeorgeGerman PS  $                                           1,948,960
Christ The King  $                                           1,622,806
Holy Spirit Catholic Elementary School  $                                              258,609
Monsignor Doyle Catholic SS  $                                           6,567,779
St Augustine Catholic S  $                                           2,587,556
St Francis Sep S, Cambridge  $                                           2,939,918
St Gregory Sep S  $                                           3,439,427
St Joseph Sep S  $                                           1,703,114
St Margaret S  $                                           1,828,410
St Michael Sep S  $                                           2,937,852
St Peter Sep S  $                                           3,559,718
St Vincent de Paul  $                                              928,151
St. Teresa of Calcutta, Cambridge  $                                           1,239,315
St. Vincent de Paul holding school  $                                           4,214,330
Avenue Road PS  $                                           1,332,335
Blair Road PS  $                                              741,043
Central PS  $                                           1,711,462
Chalmers Street PS  $                                           1,467,182
Clemens Mill PS  $                                              924,600
Coronation PS  $                                           1,568,374
Elgin Street PS  $                                              802,900
Galt CI  $                                           7,655,061
Glenview Park SS  $                                           8,390,026
Highland PS  $                                           1,348,823
Manchester PS  $                                           2,631,464
Parkway PS  $                                              520,740
Preston HS  $                                           7,905,549
Preston PS  $                                              901,640
Saginaw PS  $                                              374,040
Southwood SS  $                                           7,053,891
St. Andrew’s PS  $                                           1,088,566
Stewart Avenue PS  $                                           2,946,116
Tait Street PS  $                                           2,352,650
William G. Davis PS  $                                           2,690,649
ÉÉC SaintNoëlChabanel  Cambridge  $                                           1,318,561

School conditions matter. They impact student learning, attendance, and health. They impact student learning, attendance, and health, and must be a higher priority for our next provincial government than they have been with the current Ford government.

PLEASE NOTE: Fix Our Schools is relying on the most recent disrepair data provided by the Ministry of Education in Fall 2017 and has mapped postal codes provided by the Ministry for each school to riding postal code information from a third party. Therefore, it is possible that there may be small errors in the data provided here and we would be grateful if community members would contact us with any errors. 

MPP Sabaway: $49.4-M of Disrepair in Mississauga-Erin Mills Schools

March 4, 2022

Dear MPP Sabaway,

Did you know there is $49.4-million of disrepair in the publicly funded schools in your riding of Mississauga-Erin Mills?

We know that you did not sign the Fix Our Schools Pledge during the 2018 election. However, as we head into another provincial election in June 2022, we trust that safe, healthy, well-maintained school buildings will be a priority for all parties.

We wanted to share the following details of disrepair each school in your riding in the hope that this detailed information would underscore the importance of developing standards of good repair for Ontario schools and also the importance of providing the adequate, stable provincial funding to school boards required for them to meet those new standards and eliminate the $16.8-billion repair backlog (as of June 2021) that plagues Ontario’s schools.

Total disrepair in each publicly funded school in Mississauga-Erin Mills:

All Saints Sep School  $                           1,542,000
Archbishop RomeroBlessed Trinity Catholic Centre for Learning  $                           1,445,000
Christ the King Sep S  $                           2,217,025
Divine Mercy  $                              830,466
Our Lady of Mercy  $                           1,993,292
St. Aloysius Gonzaga  $                           1,784,640
St. Bernard of Clairvaux Catholic  $                              360,000
St. Clare Sep S  $                           2,704,138
St. Faustina  $                              555,672
St. Joan of Arc SS  $                              595,000
St. Margaret of Scotland (formerly Pierre Laporte)  $                           2,864,682
St. Mark Sep S  $                           2,160,856
St. Rose of Lima Sep S  $                           1,999,888
St. Sebastian  $                              500,000
Artesian Drive P.S.  $                              705,338
Brookmede PS  $                           5,767,756
Castlebridge P.S.  $                              271,955
Churchill Meadows PS  $                              256,136
Credit Valley PS  $                          3,360,497
Erin Centre M.S.  $                             170,149
Erin Mills MS  $                          5,166,756
Garthwood Park PS  $                          1,498,591
McKinnon P.S.  $                             172,279
Middlebury PS  $                          2,491,925
Oscar Peterson P.S.  $                             239,710
Ruth Thompson Middle School  $                             708,573
Sawmill Valley PS  $                          2,443,148
Stephen Lewis S.S.  $                              510,650
Thomas Street Middle School  $                           2,081,134
ÉÉC SaintJeanBaptiste  $                           1,962,246

School conditions matter. They impact student learning, attendance, and health, and must be a higher priority for our next provincial government than they have been with the current Ford government.

PLEASE NOTE: Fix Our Schools is relying on the most recent disrepair data provided by the Ministry of Education in Fall 2017 and has mapped postal codes provided by the Ministry for each school to riding postal code information from a third party. Therefore, it is possible that there may be small errors in the data provided here and we would be grateful if community members would contact us with any errors.