School boards
160ideas | - Amalgamate the Catholic and public school boards (107 ideas)
- Keep the Catholic school board (40 ideas)
- Amalgamate all boards, reduce the role of trustees (2 ideas)
- Increase budgeting capacity and transparency in school boards
- Amalgamate certain administrative and support functions among boards
- Decrease the size of school boards
- Launch a Royal Commission to investigate how best to run school boards
- Don't close the Lakefield District Intermediate Secondary School
- Increase student representation in running schools
- Increase staff representation on school boards
- Eliminate school board trustees
- Create competition between school boards
- Charge fees for students wishing to study religion in a public school
- Reduce the size and cost of the education bureaucracy
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Curriculum
36ideas | - Create a personal finance class (8 ideas)
- Improve teaching of STEM curriculum (4 ideas)
- Update the curriculum (3 ideas)
- Improve environmental education in public schools (2 ideas)
- Invest in life skills training (2 ideas)
- Make physical education mandatory (2 ideas)
- Teach students about mental illness
- Ensure the curriculum helps all students succeed
- Change the curriculum to better serve rural schools
- Include teaching of restorative practices in the curriculum
- Include teaching of mindfulness in the curriculum
- Reduce homework loads and increase recreation time
- Introduce more advanced subjects to the curriculum
- Develop outdoor education programming
- Volunteer lectures in schools to share generational knowledge
- Keep politics out of curriculum formation
- Eliminate programs where students can complete workbooks for credits
- Eliminate the sex-ed curriculum
- Teach students about nutrition
- Develop an edible gardening program
- Provide better sexual health education
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Tuition, loans and grants
26ideas | - Reduce university tuition (7 ideas)
- Make post-secondary education free of charge (5 ideas)
- Extend OSAP to all students (3 ideas)
- Extend OSAP to international graduate students
- Allow students to pay tuition via deductions from future earnings
- Hold post-secondary education grants in a government-managed account
- Increase OSAP loan relief
- Make student grants contingent on grades
- Charge tuition on the basis of expected earnings
- Simplify the OSAP process through better integration with CRA
- Create a public service work program with debt repayment
- Increase the size of interest-free portion of OSAP
- Increase OSAP amounts for Canadian students studying abroad
- Increase loans and grants provided through OSAP
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Teachers & staff
22ideas | - Increase funding for educational assistants (3 ideas)
- Make education an essential service (2 ideas)
- Increase compensation for early childhood educators (2 ideas)
- Create a 1-year on the job practicum for new teachers
- Strengthen controls on teachers' sick days
- Ensure school librarians are properly qualified
- Allow teachers to apply for full time positions in different boards
- Require applicants to teachers' programs to have work experience
- Increase compensation for teachers
- Ensure fair competitions for hiring of teachers
- Decrease the number of administrative staff
- Treat teachers better, increase qualification standards
- Incentivize older teachers to retire
- Reduce compensation for teachers
- Ensure teachers have expertise in their teaching areas
- Educate teaching staff about mental health
- Assign each principal to two schools
- Increase support for support staff
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Standards and testing
14ideas | - Eliminate EQAO (4 ideas)
- Reduce class sizes (2 ideas)
- Create minimum enrollment guidelines for under-populated schools
- Reinstate the exam exemption policy
- Identify high potential through intelligence testing
- Create minimum and maximum class sizes
- Eliminate standardized literacy testing
- Improve the quality of the education system
- Make EQAO based on a random sample, instead of province-wide
- Eliminate the OSSLT
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Early Years Care
14ideas | - Create affordable childcare (10 ideas)
- Fully fund daycare
- Create affordable childcare for single parents
- Make it easier for smaller daycares to get operating licenses
- Subsidize daycares
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Career preparation
12ideas | - Improve streaming of students into applied and academic programs (2 ideas)
- Strengthen Ontario's apprenticeship programs (2 ideas)
- Develop internships for new graduates
- Develop structured alternative education programs with paid employment opportunities
- Publish more measures of student success post graduation
- Introduce greater technical training opportunities from Grade 9
- Develop internships for new immigrants
- Create stronger career education programs
- Help students make choices about their career pathways
- Subsidize skilled trades training programs
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Post-secondary Education
12ideas | - Create a French language university (4 ideas)
- Create a room swapping system for university students
- Improve teaching of trades, such as painting
- Set up an exchange program for student housing
- Fund post-secondary programs on the basis of economic prospects
- Help post-secondary students understand realistic budgets and debt loads
- Increase funding for universities
- Reduce university tuition
- Make it easier for post-secondary students to work while in school
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Facilities and services
11ideas | - Increase wages for school bus drivers
- Turn schools into community hubs
- Charge staff and students parking fees to support maintenance and facility repairs
- Provide greater community access to playing fields
- Spend money on classrooms, not training and conferences
- Merge school infrastructure
- Address the repair backlog in public school
- Eliminate magnet school bussing
- Provide greater community access to school facilities
- Create infirmaries at elementary schools and large daycares
- Eliminate bussing charges for students who are accepted to special regional programs
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Alternative schools
8ideas | - Allow charter schools (4 ideas)
- Create tax credits for homeschooling
- Increase funding for alternative education
- Create a stronger co-op system
- Eliminate magnet schools
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Special Education
8ideas | - Increase funding for special education (5 ideas)
- Improve special education (2 ideas)
- Improve early management of aggressive and antisocial behaviour
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Full Day Kindergarten
3ideas | - Eliminate full day kindergarten (2 ideas)
- Roll back full day kindergarten
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Grading and Credits
3ideas | - Reverse high school grade inflation
- Let students fail and repeat a grade
- Give students credits for extracurriculars
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Technology
3ideas | - Increase adoption of online education (2 ideas)
- Expand use of instructional videos
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Adult Education
1idea | - Reinvest in adult education
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