Education groups are worried about what the Ford government has in store for Ontario schools. Arguments over its education plans dominated debate in the Ontario Legislature Thursday morning, with the opposition questioning why the province needs a new two-person advisory board to investigate standardized testing scores.
“We don’t need a panel, we just need more adults in our schools,” said Liberal Education Critic and Parliamentary Leader John Fraser. “Anybody can tell you that class sizes are too big. They starve special education. There’s a mental health crisis in our schools and the government is just walking past.”
After holding back the results of Ontario’s EQAO testing for weeks, Education Minister Paul Calandra said this week that he’s decided to create a new advisory board. The board will figure out how to respond to what Calandra says are disappointing results in provincial testing.