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FEATURE
Nancy Campbell writes about her work supporting students, how that job has changed since she started 25 years ago and the impact of funding cuts.
FEATURE
Asha Nagpal writes about supporting French literacy in the diverse school in which she teaches, focusing on how she embraces plurilingualism and students’ identities.

Columns

David Mastin
A fundamental truth has guided our federation since its beginning: public education in Ontario is strongest when it is rooted in local democracy.
Sharon O’Halloran

As we publish this issue of Voice, we find ourselves at a critical juncture. The threat to local democracy posed by Bill 33 and this government’s centralization agenda is inseparable from the fight for equity in our public schools.

Izida Zorde

This Spring issue of Voice considers the strategies we use to ensure that students, communities and union members are supported, represented and reflected in our schools, our classrooms and in our organization as a whole.

Spotlight

By Chad Mills
Chad Mills reflects on why public schools need more Black educators.
By Gordon Nore

For most of my 21 years as an elementary educator, I’ve worked as a teacher-librarian. One of the delights of my role is selecting new materials to share with colleagues and students. One of the challenges is finding books that reflect the diversity of the children I teach and their families.

By Amrita Kaul
Amrita Kaul writes about the ways in which chronic underfunding of public schools and large classes have stretched Special Education resources.