Dear MPP Downey,

Did you know there is $57.6-million of disrepair in the publicly funded schools in your riding of Barrie-Springwater-Oro-Medonte? We wanted to share 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 $15.9-billion repair backlog that plagues Ontario’s schools:

Total disrepair in each publicly funded school in Barrie-Springwater-Oro-Medonte:

School conditions matter. They impact student learning, attendance, and health.

We ask that you and your government please prioritize schools as critical infrastructure and take the steps necessary to ensure that the disrepair in all of Ontario’s publicly funded schools is eliminated and that schools are safe, healthy, well-maintained buildings that provide environments conducive to learning and working. We look forward to hearing back from you with details on your plan to Fix Ontario’s Schools.

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. 

Dear MPP Roberts,

Did you know there is $170.1-million of disrepair in the publicly funded schools in your riding of Ottawa West-Nepean? We wanted to share 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 $15.9-billion repair backlog that plagues Ontario’s schools:

Total disrepair in each publicly funded school in Ottawa West-Nepean:

School conditions matter. They impact student learning, attendance, and health.

We ask that you and your government please prioritize schools as critical infrastructure and take the steps necessary to ensure that the disrepair in all of Ontario’s publicly funded schools is eliminated and that schools are safe, healthy, well-maintained buildings that provide environments conducive to learning and working. We look forward to hearing back from you with details on your plan to Fix Ontario’s Schools.

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. 

Dear MPP Crawford,

Did you know there is $115.6-million of disrepair in the publicly funded schools in your riding of Oakville? 

We wanted to share 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 $15.9-billion repair backlog that plagues Ontario’s schools:

Total disrepair in each publicly funded school in Oakville:

School conditions matter. They impact student learning, attendance, and health.

We ask that you and your government please prioritize schools as critical infrastructure and take the steps necessary to ensure that the disrepair in all of Ontario’s publicly funded schools is eliminated and that schools are safe, healthy, well-maintained buildings that provide environments conducive to learning and working. We look forward to hearing back from you with details on your plan to Fix Ontario’s Schools.

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. 

How on earth was $15.9-billion of disrepair allowed to accumulate in Ontario’s publicly funded schools? And how on earth can any provincial government that is responsible for publicly funded schools not have any metrics in place to measure important elements of our children’s learning environments such as classroom temperature, air quality, water quality, lunchrooms, and rodents/vermin? Those questions were top of mind when we developed the Fix Our Schools Pledge campaign leading up to the June 2018 Ontario election.

We’re proud to say that we convinced over 200 provincial candidates to sign the Fix Our Schools Pledge. We’re even more proud that of those candidates, 58 of all Ontario MPPs elected in June committed to developing a standard of good repair for Ontario schools and to providing the adequate, stable funding needed to ensure that all Ontario schools meet this new standard by 2022.  This represents a tangible way we can hold our elected representatives accountable to Fixing Ontario Schools! 

Some notable elected MPPs signed the Fix Our Schools Pledge…

Interested in seeing if your MPP made this personal commitment to safe, healthy, well-maintained school buildings by signing the Fix Our Schools Pledge? CLICK HERE

Dear MPP Surma,

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

Did you know there is $281.6-million of disrepair in the publicly funded schools in your riding of Etobicoke Centre? We wanted to share 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 $15.9-billion repair backlog that plagues Ontario’s schools:

Total disrepair in each publicly funded school in Etobicoke Centre:

School conditions matter. They impact student learning, attendance, and health.

We commend you for personally signing the Fix Our Schools Pledge leading up to the June election and ask that you ensure your government prioritizes schools as critical infrastructure. Please take the steps necessary to ensure that the disrepair in all of Ontario’s publicly funded schools is eliminated and that schools are safe, healthy, well-maintained buildings that provide environments conducive to learning and working. We look forward to hearing back from you with details on your plan to Fix Ontario’s Schools.

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. 

Dear MPP Parsa,

Did you know there is $45.9-million of disrepair in the publicly funded schools in your riding of Aurora-Oak Ridges-Richmond Hill? We wanted to share 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 $15.9-billion repair backlog that plagues Ontario’s schools:

Total disrepair in each publicly funded school in Aurora-Oak Ridges-Richmond Hill:

School conditions matter. They impact student learning, attendance, and health.

We commend you for personally signing the Fix Our Schools Pledge leading up to the June election and ask that you ensure your government prioritizes schools as critical infrastructure. Please take the steps necessary to ensure that the disrepair in all of Ontario’s publicly funded schools is eliminated and that schools are safe, healthy, well-maintained buildings that provide environments conducive to learning and working. We look forward to hearing back from you with details on your plan to Fix Ontario’s Schools.

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. 

Definition of Efficiency: Doing things right; accomplishing something with the least waste of time, effort, money; competency in performance.

Definition of Effectiveness: Doing the right things; the degree to which objectives are achieved and the extent to which targeted problems are solved. 

Ideally, business and government ought to strive to be both efficient and effective. However, if efficiency is the primary goal, with little regard for effectiveness, things can go off the rails. For instance, I think we’d all agree that if a company has reduced waste and streamlined its production processes but is focused on making rotary-dial phones in 2018, this company will not ultimately be very successful! By focusing on maximizing efficiency with no regard for effectiveness, they are efficiently producing a product that is not wanted or needed in today’s environment. 

So when Fix Our Schools read through this year’s Education Funding Guide, issued by the Ministry of Education to obtain input into the 2019-20 education funding model in Ontario, we were very concerned to see such a huge emphasis on efficiency (doing things right) with very little regard given to effectiveness (doing the right things to achieve educational objectives). Although the word effective is used in the introduction and conclusion of the Funding Guide, it is not mentioned once in the “meat” of the document, which outlines what this government is actually seeking input on. 

What do you think about the direction Doug Ford’s government is taking in obtaining feedback that will guide the upcoming school year’s funding? Do you share our concern that efficiency without real consideration for effectiveness is a worrisome goal?