The provincial government will begin collecting and analyzing data on the ethnicity of students in an attempt to improve school achievement, CBC News has learned. The move will be announced today by Education Minister Mitzie Hunter as just one part of the province's new equity action plan, according to a government source. The decision to gather demographic data such as race and ethnicity and to analyze its relation to school achievement will help the government make better education policies, said the source. (CBC)Also in April, news emerged that almost half of Toronto District School Board students expelled over the last five years are black. A report out of York University found that a similar phenomenon reverberated across the Greater Toronto Area, with black students routinely being streamed into applied programs rather than academic ones, and suspended at much higher rates than their counterparts.

Source: CBC News September 07, 2017 09:00 UTC