TDSB streicht mehr als 200 Verwaltungsmitarbeiter und beseitigt 91 freie Stellen
https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/tdsb-cutting-more-than-200-admin-staff-eliminating-91-vacant-positions/
TDSB streicht mehr als 200 Verwaltungsmitarbeiter und beseitigt 91 freie Stellen
https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/tdsb-cutting-more-than-200-admin-staff-eliminating-91-vacant-positions/
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Eliminating almost 300 permanent positions at Canada’s largest school board. How will this benefit anyone? How will this make education better? Even if they are staff-facing positions, making things harder for teachers still indirectly makes things worse for our kids.
TDSB lost its agency when Doug Ford seized it last year and appointed a crony to run it in place of the elected trustees. TDSB isn’t cutting anyone because TDSB has no independence of action. Premier Doug Ford is cutting more than 200 admin staff.
Because I have paid more than one microsecond of attention to politics in Ontario over the last 8 years, I am smart enough to not give Ford and his merry band of cronies the benefit of the doubt when it comes to making decisions on education staffing.
I have zero confidence that any money saved from this will be routed back into the classroom or will otherwise benefit education at all.
From the article:
> Last month, the TDSB confirmed that nearly 300 teaching positions will be cut across the board for the 2026-27 school year, adding that those numbers are subject to change.
I wonder why journalists do not bother doing a bit of backup research to put numbers in perspective.
According to https://www.tdsb.on.ca/Portals/0/docs/FINANCIAL_FACTS_2024-2025.pdf
1) The number of elementary teachers went down by 3.9% in five years whereas the number of students went down only by 2.1% over the same period.
2) The number of secondary teachers went up by 5% whereas the number of secondary students went up by 7.1% over the same period.
So, the number of teachers per student has gone down in both elementary and secondary levels in the previous five year period. It would be nice to see by how much the total enrollment has gone down since 2025 to justify this further reduction.