CPAC Committee


2011 STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
(In Honour of Marion Drysdale)

BECOME THE SOLUTION: WORDS INTO ACTION

Ontarians spend a lot of time talking about local and global problems, but words alone don't solve them. What could you do to move from words to action? How can you become the solution?

OSSTF invites secondary student writers and artists to submit creative work exploring 2011's Student Achievement theme:Become the solution: Words into action.

Identify a local or global problem about which there is a lot of discussion and then produce an original piece of work using writing, visual art, or technology that expresses how you can become the solution.

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The Students First Plan - Ontario's schools must be focused on giving students the academic, life and social skills that enable them to become confident individuals with a wide range of opportunities.  Students who are fully engaged in this manner, stay in school and succeed in school.  Ontario's public secondary school teachers and educational workers have a plan that will put the needs of students first and make this happen.

More details on the OSSTF's students first plan.

Funding Formula - In 2003, in his wide-ranging report, Commissioner Rozanski found that the Progressive Conservatives had short-changed Ontario's public education system by more than $2 billion.  He made a total of 33 recommendations which can be viewed on the internet at: www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/document/reports/task02/complete.pdf.

OSSTF is still waiting for the implementation of the following Rozanski recommendations:

  1. The immediate restoration of $511 million into the funding formula, primarily in the local priorities and learning opportunities grant areas to allow current issues to be addressed; the ongoing adjustment of benchmarks to reflect true costs;
  2. A full review of the funding formula;
  3. A rebuilding of the formula based on the review.