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…

The CJN reported last week that the government of Ontario has announced it will enable families to have access to faith-based daycares of their choice. On June 30, Minister of Education Stephen Lecce – in the company of Solicitor General…

Two years ago, in July 2021, we wrote how “Ontario’s anachronistic, unfair, discriminatory educational funding policies” were attracting the attention of scholars and students at home and abroad. Specifically, we pointed to an essay by Prof. Randal F. Schnoor of…

It is that thankfully, annually recurring time of the year when most of our youngsters can contemplate a break from the grind and the routine of school. Summertime looms imminently for most children with the sweet promise of freer roaming…