TDSB report calls for Oakwood Collegiate to be Africentric
Here we go again. Part 2 of Toronto District School Board (TDSB) political correctness gone to extremes. The first part was the setting up of an Africentric elementary school program at Sheppard Public School two years ago. And, no matter how many claims we hear about how successful that school is with its 161 students and 55 [...]
Implications for growth in public "alternative" schools
Every year we hear about one or more ”alternative or independent” publicly funded schools opening up somewhere in Canada. The latest, of course, is in my neck of the woods in Niagara. To be called the DSBN Academy, it is scheduled to open in September 2011 and will be geared towards college and university preparation for economically disadvantaged children and [...]
Is the Bayfield "Virtual High School" simply another alternative?
Yes, there really are private virtual high schools on the Internet now. And, to prove it I recently approached freelance writer Cathy Cove for permission to republish one of her Goderich Signal Star about Virtual High School (Ontario). It is an amazing story about how innovative thinking can change the way things are done, particularly [...]
TDSB increasing alternative schools, choice
Re-posted from a Google cached document on April 1st because original was lost. Unfortunately, however, the comments were not available. Start of article: In my opinion, it’s all about semantics. Whether you are talking about specialty schools, alternative schools, charter schools or publicly funded independent schools, it is about parent choice. It is about parent choice because decisions [...]
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