Last week his organization, Civil Rights in Public Education, joined other groups supporting the legal challenge at a rally on Parliament Hill. The rumblings come at a time of increasing financial pressure on school boards and amid repeated calls for Ontario to fix its outdated education funding formula. “In consultation with all stakeholders, Greens will end duplication in administration, buildings and busing by integrating the public and separate school boards,” leader Mike Schreiner said in an email. The Liberal government has long maintained it won’t consider eliminating separate schools, which Education Minister Indira Naidoo-Harris reiterated this week. Quebec stopped funding separate schools and created one secular two-language public system in 1997.

Source: thestar April 19, 2018 22:41 UTC