Note the June 24 meeting of the Toronto District School Board, 5050 Yonge Street, when it will approve its budget for 2009-2010. The meeting begins at 4:30 pm, but is likely to continue well into the night. Get there when you can.
At the moment, the Board is looking at cuts in the neighbourhood of $39. 3 million.
So far, the Board has tentatively approved;
- staff reductions of 36 teacher librarians ($3.0 m),
- 150 education assistants ($5.9m),
- 20 Special Education teachers ($1.7m) and
- 28 caretakers ($1.6m) for a total of $12.2 million.
for a total of $12.2 million.
That leaves $27.1 million still to cut.
Be at the June 24 Board meeting to tell our trustees to say NO to these cuts. If the province imposes a Supervisor, we must then begin organizing to make it clear to the people of Toronto that this assault on our public schools is a provincial initiative.
Make the province wear these cuts.
(Adapted from Education Action Toronto)
