Ontario Expanding Special Education and Putting More Educators in Schools.
Ontario is making a significant investment to improve special education programs, put more teachers and support staff in classrooms, and help better prepare kids for their future.
Premier Kathleen Wynne was with Indira Naidoo-Harris, Minister of Education, and Arthur Potts, MPP Beaches-East York, at Kimberley Junior Public School in Toronto today to announce an investment of more than $300 million over three years that will help children with special education needs succeed. This major funding increase will add more education workers and specialized support staff to classrooms, and eliminate the wait list to have a child’s special education needs assessed. In total, Ontario will add about 2,000 new teachers and education workers, including:
Taken together, these actions will help to address concerns around challenges and disruptions for students in the classroom, providing educators with the resources to maintain healthy, safe, structured schools and creating an environment that promotes a life-long love of le arning for all children. Putting more education workers and supports in our schools is part of the government’s plan to support care, create opportunity and make life more affordable during this period of rapid economic change. The plan includes free prescription drugs for everyone under 25, and 65 or over, through the biggest expansion of medicare in a generation, free tuition for hundreds of thousands of students, a higher minimum wage and better working conditions and easier access to affordable child care. |
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