Education Minister Stephen Lecce has pledged $180-million for programs designed to turn around disappointing results that showed elementary students struggling in reading, writing and math
Minister Stephen Lecce pledged on Sunday $180-million for programs designed to turn around disappointing results released in November, 2022, that showed elementary students struggling in reading, writing and math.
At the time Mr. Lecce announced the government would roll out “math action teams” to address the issue, and on Sunday he reiterated that pledge saying $70-million would be spent hiring 300 educators with an aim to “triage” schools that scored in the lowest 20 per cent of the EQAO scores. “We will double the number of school math teacher coaches‚ we will be funding one dedicated math lead in every single board to spearhead math training,” he said at a press conference at an Etobicoke library.
“Some of this is old money that’s already been announced,” said CUPE-Ontario School Boards Council of Unions president Laura Walton, referring to the provincial budget released in March that pledged two-year commitments of $25-million for reading supports and $12.6-million for math. She argued that new education funding would be better spent shrinking class sizes for early learners and getting Early Childhood Educators for all kindergartners; currently, split classes that combine senior kindergarten and Grade 1 students do not qualify for an ECE.
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