{"id":3997,"date":"2014-05-08T20:42:53","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T01:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/?p=3997"},"modified":"2014-05-08T20:45:04","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T01:45:04","slug":"election-day-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/election-day-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Day Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Members of the TDSB Community and Eglinton-Lawrence<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>This election&#8217;s forum will be held on Tuesday May 27 at 7pm, in the Lawrence Park CI auditorium.<\/p>\n<p>(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.)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Provincial government policies control much of the operations of your schools. Among other things the government:sets the funding and staffing levels,<\/li>\n<li>dictates the curriculum that our students study,<\/li>\n<li>sets or strongly influences the terms of collective agreements, working conditions, performance evaluation, and hiring rules for teachers<\/li>\n<li>decides which schools get additions or major retrofit<\/li>\n<li>requires TDSB to sell land to pay for needed additional classrooms.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>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&#8217; education and life opportunities. I hope that you will vote, and that you will consider the education policies of the candidates when you vote.<\/p>\n<p>To ensure political neutrality of the Forum I have arranged for it to be moderated by the Globe&#8217;s veteran education reporter, Caroline Alphonso.<\/p>\n<p>The provincial Eglinton-Lawrence boundaries follow Yonge St, the 401, Calendonia, and Eglinton. This boundary is different from the municipal boundaries for Eglinton-Lawrence.<\/p>\n<p>[For those of you who live in provincial St Paul&#8217;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&#8217;s forum will be moderated by experienced Toronto Star education reporter, Louise Brown.]<\/p>\n<p>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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s forum will be held on Tuesday May 27 at 7pm, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[343,57],"class_list":["post-3997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-awareness","tag-provincial-election","tag-trustee-howard-goodman"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3997"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4000,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3997\/revisions\/4000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}