{"id":5452,"date":"2026-05-14T00:36:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T22:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stocks-future.com\/?guid=d47f4f2377d26b3cb2113e13ea0d6643"},"modified":"2026-05-14T00:36:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T22:36:00","slug":"the-osbcu-calls-for-real-investment-after-ford-governments-deeply-inadequate-education-funding-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/?p=5452","title":{"rendered":"The OSBCU Calls for Real Investment After Ford Government\u2019s Deeply Inadequate Education Funding Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Ontario School Board Council of Unions (OSBCU) is deeply disappointed by the Ford government\u2019s 2026\u201327 Core Education Funding announcement released today. At a time when Ontario\u2019s publicly funded schools are facing an unprecedented staffing and funding crisis, this funding offers little more than austerity, uncertainty, and continued neglect for students and education workers.<\/p><\/a><\/a>

\nThe government\u2019s projected funding increase of just 1 per cent falls below inflation and does not come close to addressing the urgent realities facing students, families, and education workers across the province. Even accounting for projected enrolment declines, Ontario schools are once again being asked to do more with less.<\/p>

\nMost alarming is the government\u2019s decision to cut the Classroom Staffing Fund by $56.2 million. This fund supports the education workers and classroom resources students rely on every day. At a time when schools are struggling with chronic understaffing, increasing student needs, and burnout among frontline education staff, these cuts are egregious.<\/p>

\nThe government\u2019s increase to Special Education funding \u2014 a mere 0.1 per cent, well below inflation \u2014 is equally unacceptable. Just yesterday, the Auditor General confirmed what education workers, parents, and advocates have been saying for years: most school boards are spending far more on special education than they receive from the province, and students are not getting the supports they need. There are simply not enough Special Education workers in schools to meet growing demand<\/p>

\n\u201cThis funding announcement is profoundly disappointing, even by this government\u2019s standards,\u201d said Joe Tigani, President of the OSBCU. \u201cEducation workers are already stretched beyond their limits and students are paying the price for chronic underfunding and understaffing in our schools. This government has no meaningful plan to address the crisis facing public education.\u201d<\/p>

\nAccording to the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, the Ford government has underfunded public education by $6.3 billion through 2025\u201326. Another year of below-inflation funding will only deepen that shortfall. Despite repeated claims of \u201chistoric investments,\u201d student-to-staff ratios have failed to improve since 2018, and in some classifications have gotten much worse.<\/p>

\nCompounding concerns, school boards are already warning unions that thousands of education worker jobs could be at risk for September 2026 once existing job protection agreements expire within the current collective agreement. Many CUPE school board locals have already been told of staffing cuts to custodians, clerical workers, Educational Assistants, Library Techs, Information Technology and Trades workers whose livelihoods are at risk. Without renewed commitments through bargaining, schools could face devastating layoffs that would further destabilize classrooms and reduce supports for students across Ontario.<\/p>

\nToday\u2019s funding announcement makes one thing abundantly clear: the Ford government is choosing to maintain the status quo while Ontario schools fall further behind. The OSBCU will continue fighting for properly funded public education, a significant increase in staffing across all classifications in every community across the province and will make these issues a priority in upcoming negotiations with school boards and the provincial government.<\/p>

\nrjd\/cope 491<\/p> Contacts<\/b>

\nFor more information, please contact:<\/b>Shannon Carranco, CUPE Communications, scarranco@cupe.ca<\/a>, 514-703-8358<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TORONTO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Ontario School Board Council of Unions (OSBCU) is deeply disappointed by the Ford government\u2019s 2026\u201327 Core Education Funding announcement released today. At a time when Ontario\u2019s publicly funded schools are facing an unpr…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infos-businesswire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5453,"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5452\/revisions\/5453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}