Dear Members of the TDSB Community and Eglinton-Lawrence
Every Provincial election I hold an Education Day Candidate Forum so that you can better understand the positions of the candidates from each of the 4 major parties who are asking for your vote.
This election’s forum will be held on Tuesday May 27 at 7pm, in the Lawrence Park CI auditorium.
(LPCI is on Lawrence, just east of Avenue Road. The LPCI parking lots can only be accessed off Chatsworth Ave. which is one way north-bound.)
- Provincial government policies control much of the operations of your schools. Among other things the government:sets the funding and staffing levels,
- dictates the curriculum that our students study,
- sets or strongly influences the terms of collective agreements, working conditions, performance evaluation, and hiring rules for teachers
- decides which schools get additions or major retrofit
- requires TDSB to sell land to pay for needed additional classrooms.
The position of the candidate who you vote for, and the party that forms the government, will have a direct and major impact on our students’ education and life opportunities. I hope that you will vote, and that you will consider the education policies of the candidates when you vote.
To ensure political neutrality of the Forum I have arranged for it to be moderated by the Globe’s veteran education reporter, Caroline Alphonso.
The provincial Eglinton-Lawrence boundaries follow Yonge St, the 401, Calendonia, and Eglinton. This boundary is different from the municipal boundaries for Eglinton-Lawrence.
[For those of you who live in provincial St Paul’s, Trustee Shelley Laskin will be hosting an Education Day forum on May 27 at 7pm at North Toronto CI (east of Yonge, north or Lawrence). The St Paul’s forum will be moderated by experienced Toronto Star education reporter, Louise Brown.]
If you have any questions that you would like the candidates to answer, please send them to me, Howard Goodman, and I will share these with Caroline