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The Ontario School Funding Formula currently incentivizes local school boards to neglect and close neighbourhood schools. Do you support keeping neighbourhood schools open? If so, how?
Responses to the question: "The Ontario School Funding Formula currently incentivizes local school boards to neglect and close neighbourhood schools. Do you support keeping neighbourhood schools open? If so, how?"
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3 Candidate Responses (top)
| Hamilton Mountain | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Brief Response | Full Response |
| Greg Lenko | Yes | Keeping schools open is a must. Thus far the most reasonable method of keeping students in schools in their current neighbourhoods is one that would also increase enrolment, increase funding, build stronger communities where all kids, parents and families socialized together. It is a system that would truly reflect Canada being a multicultural society that would be inclusive to all students regardless of culture or religious denomination. Separate and public school boards should be merged. By merging, the schools would have greater attendance and the province would save between 1.2 and 1.6 billion dollars/year which could be used to improve schools and education. As it is anyone can go to a separate school and not take religion. That being the case it doesn't make sense to have two boards. |
| Hans Wienhold | No | I would support a gradual abolition of the Government Incorporated coercive "education" monopoly over a period of fifty years to allow the population to adjust to market based education solutions.
Education is too important to be left under the control of politicians and their self-serving cronies. |
| Monique Taylor | Yes | Yes. The Ontario NDP knows that public education is that key to Ontario's future. We also understand that schools are at the heart of our communities. We've seen too many communities torn apart by school closures. Hundreds of schools have been on the chopping block under the Liberals - and nothing is stopping hundreds more from closing.
The Ontario NDP is committing $60 million a year, starting in 2016, to an Open Schools fund. These funds will be made available to help keep schools threatened with closure open, to make essential school renovations, and to repurpose under-utilized space for other usage by the community. Schools will also be able to apply to this fund to increase free and low-fee access for non-profit groups use school space during evenings and weekends. |
Response Summary (top)
| Brief Response | Count | % of Total |
|---|---|---|
| Yes | 2 | 66.7% |
| No | 1 | 33.3% |
| Maybe | 0 | 0.0% |
3 Candidates Have Not Responded (top)
| Hamilton Mountain | ||
|---|---|---|
| Albert Marshall | ||
| Brian Goodwin | ||
| Javid Mirza | ||
