Disagreement over a new provincial program designed to help struggling readers will be the first hurdle for upcoming labour negotiations.
Chief commissioner Patricia DeGuire said at least one-third of students graduate without reaching the level of literacy that the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development says is necessary in today’s economy.Article content
And yet the government will spend $25 million on new reading resources, the change was announced 18 months ago and the unions participated in consultation on it. ETFO told the government that their members would require two years to make this single change. The Doug Ford government clearly wants to demonstrate that it is the protector of your children’s best interests. Its back-to-basics approach to education is a welcome change from years of new, experimental ways of learning that led to mediocre results in reading, writing and math. The goal is to make sure Ontario students master basic skills required for the workplace. It’s a reality reset that was long overdue in public education.
The government has gone so far as to compel boards to make publicly available exactly what is happening on teachers’ professional development days. The government can set the topics for three of them and it wants to see its priorities addressed so that teachers are quickly up to speed on changes in the teaching of math and reading. Compelling boards to make the information public is a tool to make sure that happens.
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