Education Minister Sets Boundaries For Voter Stupidity

When she comments:

Wynne said the decision to put more money into education is not an attempt to win support in advance of Ontario's general election in October.

Oh yea! I have some swampland in Florida she can buy for her retirment after the election in November.

"Students in Grade 1 and 2 don't know that there is an election coming and they really don't care. What they care about is that their teacher has the resources that she needs, that their school has good, clean classrooms and that their parents can be involved in the system," Wynne said.

Again she is right.....I can just see little Timmy and Tammy discussing the education budget with their parents at the family dinner table along with transfer payments to increase their allowance, giving one cent to improve transit in Toronto, revising the bogeyman law, etc. etc.

Province gives extra funding to school boards
toronto.ctv.ca

The Ontario government is boosting school board budgets this year with hundreds of millions more in funding.

Education Minister Kathleen Wynne said Monday that school boards will get an extra $781 million in funding for the coming school year.

In a written statement, Wynne said that the funding "reinforces" the government's strategy of new resources and the school funding formula to reflect "the changing needs of our schools."

"Overall, we have listened to our education partners and we've made these improvements based on what we know the cost pressures are in the boards," Wynne told reporters Monday morning.

Ontario's total budget for education in 2007-08 will be $18.3 billion with the added funding.

The government says that the additional funding will be allocated to help pay for the changes to the funding formula.

Wynne said the decision to put more money into education is not an attempt to win support in advance of Ontario's general election in October.

"Students in Grade 1 and 2 don't know that there is an election coming and they really don't care. What they care about is that their teacher has the resources that she needs, that their school has good, clean classrooms and that their parents can be involved in the system," Wynne said.

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