The setting of the sun this evening brings the rising of the New Year 5784. We greet the new year with festivity, celebration. And the new year greets a period of 10 days of personal, deliberative soul-searching and focused reflection…

Last week we reported that Ontario has advised GAJE that it will seek leave to appeal the decision of the Superior Court allowing GAJE to plead its case for fairness in educational funding. We remind our supporters that Judge Eugenia…

Last week we reported that Judge Eugenia Papageorgiou of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice decided that GAJE should be allowed to plead its case for fairness in educational funding. Judge Papageorgiou did not decide upon the merits of our…

This past week the Ontario Superior Court of Justice rendered its decision on the motions by the governments of Ontario and Canada to strike GAJE’s application for fairness in educational funding. Judge Papageorgiou decided that the application against the Government…

It appears Ontario’s public education system is once again heading toward crisis and disruption. As reported in the news this week, the unions representing elementary and secondary school teachers are respectively in various stages of preparing for a strike vote.…

GAJE still awaits the decision of Judge Papageorgiou on the motion brought by the governments of Ontario and Canada to strike our application for fairness in educational funding in Ontario. As soon as we know her decision, we will share…

Earlier in the week, Ontario’s Minister of Education, Stephen Lecce, announced that his ministry had implemented the first set of regulations pursuant to The Better Schools and Student Outcomes Act. The legislation and the regulations are aimed at enabling the government “to…

From time to time, we point to educational public policy research by Cardus, a public policy think tank, that relates to the heart of the cause that GAJE is pursuing. In this week’s update, we turn readers’ attention to an…

Since GAJE believes that Jewish education – in all its forms – is vital, we have informed readers of the progress of ADRABA, the innovative, creative, responsive, online Jewish school that provides a hands-on, for-credit, unique learning experience. We are…

In a recent communication to the community, UJA Federation of Greater Toronto reported that enrolment in day school education continues to grow. According to the Federation, more than 800 new students have been added to UJA’s partner day schools since…