Education Excellence Fund

Education - Making Every School
an Excellent School

 

publicpower means every public school gets the boost it needs to be an excellent school, properly staffed and equipped, offering a full range of programs to optimize each student's performance. It means parents don't have to sell candy bars to acquire essential classroom supplies.

publicpower means having a principal, librarian and physical education teacher in every school, having textbooks for every student, special education and English/French second language services for all who need them, and clean, safe schools.

Regardless of where in the province a public school is located, it should be an excellent school. Our goal is to close the education gap and improve education quality.

Conservatives: Conservatives ripped $2.1 billion out of public education, according to the study done by their appointed adviser, Mordechai Rozanski. The Conservatives deliberately created a crisis in our schools.

Plans to use public funds for private schools will create lower enrolments and less money
available for public schools.

By continually under funding public education, the Conservatives hope that even more parents
will put their children in private school so the government can cut its investments in public
education even further.

Liberals: Many Liberals favour, as do Conservatives, public funds going to private schools and they would welcome the introduction of vouchers. It's the typical Liberal flip-flop all over again - they say 'yes' one minute and 'no' the next to funding for private schools.

Like the Conservatives, Liberals promote "school choice" - a concept that runs counter to
making every school an excellent school.

Their plan creates have and have-not schools from neighbourhood to neighbourhood and
uneven standards depending on geographical and income demographics.

The Liberals won't enshrine the principles of public education in an education charter or
appoint a tough, new commissioner as an education watchdog. No charter to guarantee
quality public education, no watchdog, no bite, no effective public oversight.

NDP: Only Howard Hampton and the NDP will immediately restore the full amount identified by Dr. Rozanski's Education Equality Task Force - $2.1 billion, including inflation and enrollment - into our public schools and classrooms. The NDP's Education Excellence Fund and proceeds from ending the private school tax credit will guarantee this investment each and every year.

We'll take the politics out of education funding and put the funds back in.

Our public schools, backed by an Education Charter, a new education commissioner and
adequate, guaranteed and dedicated funding, will once again become hubs of educational and
community life. The community's use of schools will become affordable again.

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