NDP: Ford’s handpicked supervisor makes more cuts to classrooms

TORONTO and OTTAWA — NDP MPP Jessica Bell (University—Rosedale), and Shadow Minister of Education Chandra Pasma (Ottawa West—Nepean) are condemning the decision by the Minister of Education’s handpicked supervisor, Rohit Gupta, to cut more than 600 teachers from an education system that is already overcrowded and under-resourced.

"TDSB students are already packed into overcrowded classrooms in rundown schools, thanks to eight years of Doug Ford's funding cuts,” said Bell. “These latest cuts will see class sizes increase and student supports disappear, all while parents continue to hear silence from the Conservatives' overpaid, unqualified, hand-picked supervisor. These attacks on our children's education must end."

“Cutting more than 600 teachers, especially from schools serving lower-income communities and ESL programs, is a direct attack on equity in our education system,” said Pasma. “Like so many of Doug Ford and Paul Calandra’s cuts, these cuts are going to hurt the most vulnerable students the most. Instead of imposing school board takeovers that allow unqualified supervisors to make decisions in secret, behind closed doors, Doug Ford needs to properly fund education and restore locally accountable elected trustees.”