Thousands of educators from across the province are expected to gather at Queen’s Park this afternoon to protest the planned elimination of more than 3,000 teaching jobs over the next four years and call on the province to boost funding for education.
The province has indicated that it intends to cut 3,475 full-time equivalent teaching positions through attrition, starting with 1,558 positions this fall.
Today’s rally, which gets underway at 12 p.m., was jointly organized by five unions that represent public school teachers in the province. “They are talking about taking thousands of teachers out of the education system and that is going to result in enormously enlarged class sizes, large class sizes where kids can’t get the individual attention that they get right now. But it also means taking away class choices,” Ontario Secondary Schools Teachers Federation President Harvey Bischof told CP24 ahead of the rally.
Speaking with CP24 prior to the start of the rally, Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario President Sam Hammond said that teachers and parents across the province are commiteed to “taking a stand against the cuts that this government is proposing.”
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