Educators stage protests across Ontario to highlight education funding shortfalls

Educators stage protests across Ontario to highlight education funding shortfalls

The protests, running in the afternoon on April 29, were meant to challenge what the allied unions described as serious funding issues throughout the education system.

Educators hold solidarity rally to demand province fund public education

SUDBURY-MANITOULIN—Teachers and education workers from education unions across the province, including Manitoulin Island and Sudbury, held a solidarity rally last Wednesday to demand investments in publicly funded education from the province. From underfunding to larger class sizes and insufficient supports for special education, more than 250,000 educators from across Ontario united in a day of action on April 29. “The people of this great prov…