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Provincial Education Reform Consultation

11/6/2018

​On September 28, the Ministry of Education released their Consultation: Education in Ontario. The consultation asked for feedback and comments on the following areas:

  1. Improving student performance in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM
  2. Preparing students with needed job skills, such as skilled trades and coding
  3. Improving provincial standardized testing
  4. Ensuring students graduate with important life skills, including financial literacy
  5. Managing the use of technology in classrooms, such as cell phones
  6. Building a new age-appropriate Health and Physical Education curriculum that includes subjects like mental health, sexual health education and the legalization of cannabis
  7. Developing the first-ever Parents’ Bill of Rights 

Read OPSBA’s Consultation Resource, with position statements on each of the seven areas of consultation