Making connections beyond school walls : People for Education annual report on Ontario's publicly funded schools 2012

We also receive support from the Atkinson Foundation, the Knowledge Network of Applied Education Research, the RBC Foundation, the Ontario Trillium Foundation, the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario and the Ontario Ministry of Education. [...] We were shocked to schools in which 90% of the students are newcomers, and find that, in many schools, there are caps on the number schools in which over one-third of the student population of students who can be assessed. [...] On average, 46% of students 2002 government review, which urged the government to in low-income schools speak a first language other than increase the amount of the grant and provide better analysis English, compared to only 5% in high-income schools, and of the effectiveness of the programs and services it funds, to the proportion of students in low-income schools who need ensure that they are ac [...] The average ratio per school of special education stu- •. in elementary schools, the average ratio of special dents to special education teachers has risen in elementary education students to special education teachers is schools, from 22 to 1 in 2000/01 to 36 to 1 this year; and 36:1, up from 22:1 in 2000/01. [...] These numbers vary widely by region—80% of elementary Families and many experts agree on one thing: There is a lack schools in Eastern Ontario report a cap, compared to 32% of of good information about the quality and effectiveness of schools in the GTA.