(THREAD) Today, the Minister of Education @Sflecce announced "the Better Schools and Student Outcomes Act," promising transparency and accountability by taking power away from school boards to make decisions free from transparency and accountability.

#ONted #OnPoli 1/ These new changes bring about the opportunity to monetize our students and "surplus" resources. 

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(THREAD) The Ford government tabled the budget for the 2023-2024 fiscal year Tuesday afternoon. Despite having presented the largest budget in our province's history, the government has yet to address our underfunded public services or put an end to shortchanging.

#Onted #OnPoli 1/ In education, what appears to be a $2.3 billion dollar spending increase was actually allocated for the federal-provincial childcare agreement, making it not only federal funding, but it also won't be for primary or secondary school.

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pressprogress.ca/ontario-budget…

(THREAD) The Ford government's and the Minister of Education's lies about "historic" funding in the education sector have once again been indisputably proven. Thanks to the Financial Accountability Office, we now know $844 million went unspent last quarter.

#ONPoli #OntEd 1/ Just this Tuesday, Education Minister Stephen Lecce claimed mental health funding is up “400%” because “we recognize the demand is up”. #Onted #OnPoli

(THREAD) The Minister of Education Stephen Lecce has made it clear that his only clear agenda this round of bargaining is to destroy the public education system, vilify the workers who make keep our schools open, and blatantly lie to the public about union demands. #Onted #OnPoli 1/Lecce stated that CUPE is trying to “disrupt in class learning” with their unreasonable demands, I feel I must say we’re already experiencing various disruptions from things like staffing shortages, a very product of your underfunding. #Onted #OnPoli

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(THREAD) I can’t stand to hear @Sflecce claim its about the students because us students know for a fact that for your government the students have NEVER been a priority. #Onted

https://twitter.com/Sflecce/status/1576964121165430785

Last round of bargaining you also insisted that if there is to be an increase in education funding that it goes directly to students and not compensation. So explain why the following years consisted of billions in cuts, increased class sizes, and constant disruptions. #Onted

(THREAD) Education Minister Stephen Lecce’s destructive/misleading comments & false promises of stability, investments, fairness for taxpayers are full of holes and repetition of the same manipulation and lies we heard the last round of bargaining. #Onted #OnPoli 1/ In early 2020 Minister Lecce claimed that if we’re to pour more money into the education system that it goes towards students and not compensation. #Onted #OnPoli

https://twitter.com/sflecce/status/1220853651914227712

(THREAD) Ensuring a “normal”, “safe” and “stable” school year for students is the only message @Sflecce continues to put out, but based off of this governments track record with education what can we expect this to mean and why do they push this message so heavily? #onted #onpoli Firstly, what does stability mean for us students? Mainly it’s dependability, it’s knowing that the services our teachers and education workers provide will be available daily, something that’s never been as jeopardized & at risk like it has been these past few years. #onted

(THREAD) I often hear the arguments that the Covid-19 related issues in Ontario I speak about such as our stressed healthcare & educations systems aren’t that big a deal because they’ve been issues before the pandemic. The problem with this is that though they have been problems that needed fixing for some time now, we cannot deny how drastically the pandemic has amplified the severity of these issues. #onpoli #onted