Why, oh why has Friday's grant release in Ontario not generated any significant news coverage? Every school board (save one) has seen its budget increase in an era when everyone is enraged at any publicly funded services' costs increasing and putting a greater strain on their wallets.
I shudder that no education reporter in the province has picked up on the release of these grants. Not even at the province's two largest newspapers have their education reporters (they each have more than one reporter assigned to the education beat) filed any stories on the grant release.
This concerns me deeply-- the education sector is almost 20 per cent of overall government spending in Ontario. Does it not deserve more coverage than this?
- Education Reporter
- Cornwall, Ontario, Canada
- I am the managing editor of a small newsroom in Cornwall, Ont., responsible for all our local content online and in print. I have won a Canadian Community Newspaper Award for retelling the story of Winterbourne School, opened in the 19th century and closed in 2003. In addition, I have placed second in the U.S.-based National Education Writers' Association awards for "The ABCs of the EQAO," a five-part series on standardized testing. During the 2010-11 academic year, I was the Gordon N. Fisher Canadian Journalism Fellow at Massey College / University of Toronto, where I had the opportunity to audit several courses at OISE and visit schools in Germany and Finland. I still aspire to be among the best education reporters in Canada.
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