"We will end the stress and uncertainty of applying at dozens of child care centres and following up endlessly to secure a spot and establish one single Daycare Application Portal for each region to make it easier to find quality childcare close to home." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22

"We will establish a wage grid for child care workers and ensure decent work standards to keep them on the job." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for the North, retrieved 2025-02-20

"We will ensure access to French language education programs close to home, and invest in French-language child care, a proven gateway to French language education." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for the North, retrieved 2025-02-20

Invest in Francophone education, starting with proper funding for French school boards and French immersion programs as well as French-language child-care programs.

"Strengthen French education across Ontario by supporting community and cultural partnerships, training, inter-board cooperation and hiring additional French educators." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

"We’ll invest in Francophone education in French school boards and French immersion programs in the English system." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

Invest in Francophone education, starting with proper funding for French school boards and French immersion programs as well as French-language child-care programs.

"Close the funding gap of $1,500 per student in the K-12 sector and ensure future commitments are tied to inflation." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

"We will reverse Ford’s education cuts and invest in a new, needs-based funding formula. The Ford government has cut education funding by $1,500 per student since 2018, leaving schools with fewer teachers and larger class sizes." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for Southwest Ontario & Niagara, retrieved 2025-02-20

"We will review the funding model to focus on student needs and not numbers of students to support vulnerable students." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

"And we’ll make sure students can get to class reliably and on time by fixing Ford’s broken student transportation funding." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

"We will fix student transportation funding. Students across Northern Ontario lost bus services when the Ford government increased the distance eligibility. Attendance rates among students in Thunder Bay who lost access to the bus service have dropped. We will make sure you can count on a school bus to come on time for your child to get to and from school safely, by fixing the student transportation funding formula." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for the North, retrieved 2025-02-20

"We’ll end the practice of streaming and make sure we are using data to support more equitable schools." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

"We will review the funding model to focus on student needs and not numbers of students to support vulnerable students." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

Seven long years of Doug Ford and his cuts have left us with overcrowded classrooms, crumbling schools, and less support for our children.

Stronger local schools will help Ontario’s students access more opportunities, find good jobs, start businesses, and contribute to a resilient, more tariff-proof Ontario.

Marit Stiles and the Ontario NDP are on your side with a plan to fix schools, hire staff, feed kids, and make sure every single student has the tools they need to succeed.

An Ontario NDP government will:

1. Support every learner. We’ll make sure our public education system gives students with disabilities the support they deserve. We’ll end the practice of streaming and make sure we are using data to support more equitable schools. We will review the funding model to focus on student needs and not numbers of students to support vulnerable students. And we’ll make sure students can get to class reliably and on time by fixing Ford’s broken student transportation funding.
2. Invest in Francophone education in French school boards and French immersion programs in the English system.

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Support the plan

"Allow schools to address their unique staffing and infrastructure needs by expanding funding, eligibility and flexibility for the Safe Schools Grant program." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Allow every elementary, middle or high school student to have support and supervision in the classroom by establishing a lower student-to- teacher and education-worker ratio." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Hire more mental health professionals, educational assistants, Early Childhood Educators (ECEs), social workers, child and youth workers and other staff, lowering the ratio of students to education workers in the Core Education Funding." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Commit to mutual respect and collaboration between the Ministry of Education, students, parents, teachers, unions and administrators starting with a commitment to not blindside educators with Friday afternoon announcements." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Hire more staff. Large class sizes, less direct support, it can be hard to learn in Ford’s Ontario. Dedicated teachers, educational assistants, child and youth workers, ECEs, custodial and trade workers – they make all the difference helping students get the one-on-one attention they need and maintaining a nurturing learning environment. Having more caring adults in schools makes them safer for everyone." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

"We will improve access to Autism services by creating incentives for mental health professionals, social workers and speech and language to work in schools and community settings in the North." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for the North, retrieved 2025-02-20

Large class sizes, less direct support, it can be hard to learn in Ford’s Ontario. Dedicated teachers, educational assistants, child and youth workers, ECEs, custodial and trade workers – they make all the difference helping students get the one-on-one attention they need and maintaining a nurturing learning environment. Having more caring adults in schools makes them safer for everyone.

"Establish a province-wide policy mandating post-secondary institutions to increase their focus on IP generation and commercialization, and business adoption of skills, technologies, and ideas." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

"We’re committed to investing in public post-secondary education, permanently increasing base funding and investing in research and innovation to maintain our competitive edge." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for Southwest Ontario & Niagara, retrieved 2025-02-20

"Innovation starts with education. We’re committed to investing in public post-secondary education at institutions like Lakehead University, Northern College, Cambrian College, and funding a dedicated French Universite de Sudbury. We will permanently increase base funding and ensure they have the reliable funding they need to deliver world-class education." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for the North, retrieved 2025-02-20

"We will work with Indigenous post-secondary institutions, like the Seven Generations Education Institute to offer more programs and credentialling." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for the North, retrieved 2025-02-20

"Clear the school repair backlog and install heating, air conditioning and air filtration systems in every classroom by doubling annual capital funding for schools." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Build 90 new schools over the next four years and ensure that no school needs to use portables." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Fix our schools. Ontario’s schools are saddled with a massive repair backlog left behind by the Liberals, and it has only grown under Ford’s Conservatives. Freezing classrooms without heat in the winter, gyms and cafeterias with leaking roofs. We’ll fix schools to give students a high quality, nurturing learning environment. We will invest an additional $830 million a year to clear the repair backlog within 10 years while keeping up with school maintenance needs." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

Ontario’s schools are saddled with a massive repair backlog left behind by the Liberals, and it has only grown under Ford’s Conservatives. We will invest an additional $830 million a year to clear the repair backlog within 10 years while keeping up with school maintenance needs.

"Feed every elementary and secondary school kid a free and healthy lunch every school day by quadrupling funding for school food programs." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Feed students. Kids can’t learn on an empty stomach. Families are facing record high grocery bills, and inflation from tariffs could drive up costs even further. We’ll create a universal School Food Program so that every child in Ontario is set up to succeed. Ontario already feeds some kids in school, we’ll expand it for all and use fresh food prepared and grown right here in Ontario to do it. We can help kids focus on their teacher, not their hunger, and give families some financial relief." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

Kids can’t learn on an empty stomach. Families are facing record high grocery bills, and inflation from tariffs could drive up costs even further. We’ll create a universal School Food Program so that every child in Ontario is set up to succeed.

"Cut youth unemployment by half by creating 40,000 new paid co-op, internship and apprenticeship positions through tax credits for employers who hire young people." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Doug Ford renewed the Ontario PCs’ commitment to enforce compulsory certification in the electrical trade and ensure all electrical workers in Ontario are registered apprentices or have a certificate of qualification." — ontariopc.ca, retrieved 2025-02-19