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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1988-09-28, Page 16PAGE 16. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1988. Huron educators press MPP for more cash Members of the Huron Branch of the Ontario Public Education Network (OPEN) will meet with Huron MPP Jack Riddell at the Education Centre in Clinton on Friday, to urge him to continue to press the provincial government for more funding for Ontario’s public schools. Specifically, they will be delivering the message that they fear the quality of public education will continue to decline as long as the province continues to support separate schools with public money. OPEN, which was formed just prior to the 1987 provincial election 1 to serve as a lobby group for public education, consists of trustees and directors in 80 school boards in Ontario, as well as in three teachers’ federations representing more than 80,000 Ontario public school teachers. Together, they deliver educational services and programs to more than 1.2 million elementary and secondary school students each year. The Huron County chapter of the organization was formed in the late summer of 1987, and last Novem­ ber met with Mr. Riddell in Exeter to express its concerns with the ongoing cutbacks in public educa­ tion funding, using figures which showed that the level of provincial funding to public schools had dropped from 61.3 per cent in 1975 to 42.7 per cent in 1987 across Ontario, while the level of provin­ cial funding to the HCBE had dropped from 72.8 per cent to 60.9 percentof the board’s total budget over the same period. And while the Huron delegates admitted that the HCBE had traditionally fared better than the provincial average in funding due to government equalization grants, they told Mr. Riddell that most of the shortfall in provincial funding here had to be made up by farm and residential ratepayers, due to Huron County’s small industrial and commercial tax base. “It would seem inappropriate that in this time of an increasingly technological society with greater social need, that education should be receiving declining provincial support,” said Bob Allen, HCBE director of education and chairman • tion system as a whole and Huron of the delegation. Later, in sum­ mary, Mr. Allen said “...briefly, we need more provincial money. We feel that the quality of education will be further diluted if additional provincial money goes toward supporting private (separ­ ate) schools.’’ In a letter dated a week after the meeting, Mr. Riddell told the HCBE that he was well aware of the problems facing both the educa- County in particular, adding that he had “every confidence that (education minister) Chris Ward is moving as quickly as possible to come to terms’’ with some of them. Instead, the province answered by instituting further cutbacks in capital funding earlier this year, a move which brought an outraged response from boards, both public and separate, all across Ontario. The HCBE delegation meeting with Mr. Riddell on Friday will consist of Mr. Allen; board chair­ man John Jewitt; trustee Don MacDonald on behalf of the Ontario Public School Trustees’ Association(OPSTA); Phil Par- sons, president of the Huron chapter of the Ontario Public School Teachers’ Association (OPSTF); Flo Keillor, president of the local branch of the Federation of Women Teachers’ Association of Ontario (FWTAO); and Nancy McLean, president of the local branch of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation (OSSTF). The meeting begins at 2 p.m. and is open to the public. z Business & Professional " Directory Wanted! Livestock barbecue pigs, ruptures, rhinitis, poor doers, feedlot rejects. 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