Tuition/Education

Everyone wants students to reach higher.

Dalton McGuinty wants to make them reach deeper in their pockets – because he’s raising their college and university tuition fees by 20 to 36 per cent over four years.

New Democrats stand up for students. We believe they should be able to afford a high-quality post-secondary education – because young people are our future – because we all benefit from a highly-educated workforce – and because no-one should have to mortgage their future to build a better life for themselves.

Dalton McGuinty promised positive change. Instead of progress, we’re seeing the same old approach – more tuition hikes – even though Ontario students already pay tuition fees well above the national average.

The NDP has a fresh idea – the Tuition Hike Ban bill. If passed, the bill would freeze tuition through 2007, then give working families their say on the issue in the next provincial election.

Show your support for affordable, accessible post-secondary education. Tell us your story and join the NDP in the fight for working families.

Tuition/Education

 

 

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Marchese urges action on declining enrolment

May 22, 2008 - 4:00pm

NDP Education Critic Rosario Marchese is urging Dalton McGuinty to stop the havoc that declining enrolment is wreaking on Ontario schools.

“There are two possible solutions to declining enrolment and concomitant funding problems – we can allow schools to close and programs to be cut, or we can consider schools as community hubs and change the way we fund them,” said Marchese.

 

 

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Inadequate funding jeopardizes full-day kindergarten

May 6, 2008 - 3:00pm

NDP MPP Cheri DiNovo went after the McGuinty Liberals for putting full-day kindergarten programs in jeopardy.

“Despite the McGuinty Liberal’s campaign promises, the Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB) will be forced to cut their effective full-day kindergarten program to cover budget shortfalls,” said DiNovo. “St. Thomas More School now stands to lose the program that inspired the McGuinty government's campaign promise.”

 

 

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Marchese calls for Liberal School Closure Moratorium

April 24, 2008 - 4:00pm

NDP Education Critic Rosario Marchese calls for a moratorium on school closures until Kathleen Wynne holds her planned 2010 review on the issue.

The Minister of Education plans to appoint a working group to examine the impact of declining enrolment on Ontario schools in 2010. But enrolment decline and the resulting lack of funding are forcing many school boards to close down schools before the review takes place.

 

 

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McGuinty must take student fee action: Marchese

March 28, 2008 - 10:00am

NDP Education Critic Rosario Marchese says Dalton McGuinty should start protecting students and stop looking the other way while Colleges and Universities charge tuition-related ancillary fees.

Marchese was referring to today’s ruling by Judge Joan Lax that the $200-million class action suit brought forward by students Amanda Hassum and David Roffey on behalf of Ontario college students should not proceed since it is the government’s responsibility to enforce its own regulations.

 

 

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