TORONTO — Ontario elementary school teachers will be getting $750 purchasing cards starting in the next school year for classroom supplies, Premier Doug Ford announced Wednesday.
Ford said he has on numerous occasions encountered teachers at the dollar store who were buying supplies using their own money, and they shouldn't have to do that.
"The days of teachers having to put their hands in their own pockets to pay for school supplies, those days are done," he said at a press conference about the $66-million fund.