Provincial Politics

Members of provincial parliament met with ETFO presidents and executive members at an informal breakfast gathering.

Critics,  especially  those  on  the  right, take  pride  in  denigrating  public  education. They want us to believe that our schools – and by implication, you, our members – are failing our children.

“It is  not  enough to  be busy. The question is:  What are we busy bout?” When Henry David Thoreau  made this  remark he was not relating them to the activities of OTF,  but his words resonate.

You may not have a disability now but you will probably have one eventually. That makes persons with disabilities “the minority of everyone,” says David Lepofsky.

Over the  past several years there has been a significant increase in the number of literacy and numeracy initiatives that ETFO members are expected to implement.

In  July, the Minister of Finance invited ETFO and other public sector unions to a meeting to discuss compensation.

Last  fall, after reporting that the province is facing a $24.7 billion deficit, Premier McGuinty and  Finance  Minister  Dwight  Duncan  began to muse publicly about how to cut government costs.

The Liberal  government has  passed  the halfway  mark of its second term.

Early in my teaching career I came to understand the extent to which public education is intricately entwined with politics.

…And Still We Rise Conference