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Education Matters Online
Feature
Volume 2, Issue 3: March 3, 2004
Political UpdateBy Don Edgar, Federation Services Officer |
He knows that you care about kids and that your work ethic is unquestioned, and we look forward to hearing him speak during the March Break at our annual provincial meeting in Toronto. At this forum, he is expected to deliver a state of the union address and then to receive a broad range of questions about implementing the Rozanski recommendations and restoring funding levels by adjusting benchmarks and recognizing inflation so those in education can realize equity in working conditions, about teachers holding the balance of power in their own professional association-the College of Teachers, about eliminating the expensive and unnecessary Education Quality and Accountability Office (now there’s a tory sounding name for you), and about reasonable funding for adult education, among others.
We are confident that this government will not hide behind the deficit, that they will attack it creatively, and that they will prioritize the billions of your tax dollars which they have at their disposal by placing education at the top of the list, and we wish them well with their efforts. But really, how could they do otherwise? Education is, after all, their "number one priority".
