Massive Pledge Campaign: School Disrepair
TORONTO, June 06, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Over 210 signatures have been collected from Ontario MPP candidates by the Campaign for Public Education and Fix Our Schools in this election campaign so far. All candidates have pledged their commitment to eliminate the $15.9-billion of disrepair in Ontario's schools and to provide safe, healthy, well-maintained schools in this province.
The Pledge campaign has had a massive positive impact across the province, confirming that school disrepair is an issue that all political parties in Ontario must now work together to tackle. The Pledge is attached.
Signatures continue to roll in each hour but at 3:30 pm on Tuesday, June 5 the party breakdown for Pledge signatures was:
- NDP: 80
- Liberal: 48
- Green: 40
- PC: 31
- Communist: 10
- Trillium: 1
- Independent: 1
Update this Pledge list hourly:
http://fixourschools.ca/have-your-local-mpp-candidates-signed-the-pledge-to-fix-our-schools/
PDF attachment:
- Fix Our Schools Pledge
http://resource.globenewswire.com/Resource/Download/753552f1-ea14-415e-b373-4750090c820c
Press contacts: Krista Wylie, Fix Our Schools ? (416) 525-1540, Stephen Seaborn, Campaign for Public Education ? (416) 737-2980
Quotes
"The positive response to the Fix Our Schools Pledge initiative clearly demonstrates that the provincial government we elect on Thursday must step-up to address the $15.9 billion in school disrepair, and change its approach to education funding. Politicians, voters and parents have spoken loud and clear - we cannot allow children in Ontario to attend school in buildings that have crumbling walls, leaking roofs and generally unsafe conditions anymore." ? Krista Wylie, Co-Founder, Fix Our Schools
"We need a province-wide Standard of Good Repair for schools and adequate, stable provincial funding for school boards to meet those standards within a set timeline of four years." ? Stephen Seaborn, Campaign for Public Education
fixourschools.ca, founded in 2014, is a non-partisan, parent-led, province-wide campaign working to ensure that every publicly funded school in Ontario is a safe, healthy, well-maintained building that provides an environment conducive to learning and working.
campaignforpubliceducation.ca was founded in 2002 to coordinate efforts of parent, teacher, education worker and ethno-racial organizations in campaigning for needs-based funding for public education.
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