A small grassroots coalition plans to launch a legal challenge against separate school funding in Ontario, hoping it will ignite debate about a topic most politicians would rather avoid. The second plaintiff, James Sutton of Markham, has two sons who travel by school bus an hour each way to their French public school in Richmond Hill. He calls separate school funding “an anachronism” and says despite being enshrined during Confederation, it no longer has merit in a multicultural province. Ending separate school funding has been part of the Green Party of Ontario platform. The OPEN coalition argues that funding separate school boards violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms’ guarantee of equality.

Source: thestar June 05, 2017 09:56 UTC