May 31, 2005. 03:26 AM

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Education Minister Gerard Kennedy and Premier Dalton McGuinty watch Ben Tablda, 7, “fish” before a funding announcement at Toronto’s Holy Rosary School yesterday.

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Schools get more cash to reduce class sizes


KERRY GILLESPIE
QUEEN'S PARK BUREAU

The province is spending $126 million to reduce class sizes in early grades, Premier Dalton McGuinty announced yesterday.

By September, 70 per cent of Ontario's junior kindergarten to Grade 3 students — 381,000 children — will be in smaller classes.

"Smaller class sizes ensure our children can get the individual attention they need to succeed," McGuinty told media reporters at Toronto's Holy Rosary School.

"We know that children who start their education in small classes are more likely to stay in school, graduate on time and take on challenging courses later in their education."

By 2007-'08 the government hopes to cap elementary school classes at 20 students.

Yesterday's announcement includes $90 million to hire 1,275 more teachers and $36 million to create more classroom space to support the smaller class size initiative.

The announcement builds on a $90-million investment last year to hire 1,100 teachers to begin reducing class size.

McGuinty also announced a $30.4-million funding package for other elementary school improvements, including:

$18 million for 160 special projects to improve students' reading, writing and math.

$7 million for specialized summer teacher training in writing, reading, math and geometry.

$5.4 million for teams of "turnaround" experts to help in schools where students are having the most problems with reading.
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You guys are missing the point...and looking only at the negatives. Of course, negative stories make more intersting reading than positive ones, which is why we hear so much about them.
Don't flame me on this....just trying to bring what was said in the original article

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Are you the same Chandresh who wrote the paragraph below? Just wondering.

Thanks

"Before I voluntarily resigned, till yesterday I had a job of a senior manager in a manufacturing company in toronto, with good prospects of rising in the organisation and getting reasonable financial rewards to lead a comfortable life with remuneration of my wife as a teacher in York School Board - but I have had enough of it - I DO NOT WANT TO CHANGE MY NAME FROM CHANDRESH TO CHARLES - AND MY WIFE DOES NOT LIKE SENDING A CHILD TO SOCIAL WORKER WITHOUT FIRST TRYING TO SORT OUT PROBLEMS WITH THE CHILD AND HIS FAMILY AND SHOWING THAT SHE REALLY CARES - and next month I am leaving this country - even without getting citizenship - BECAUSE THIS IS NOT THE KIND OF LIFE I WANT!

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Rank Country Electricity - production
(kWh) Date of Information
1 World 15,290,000,000,000 2002 est.
2 United States 3,839,000,000,000 2002
3 European Union 2,888,000,000,000 2002 est.
4 China 1,910,000,000,000 2003
5 Japan 1,044,000,000,000 2002
6 Russia 915,000,000,000 2003
7 Germany 560,000,000,000 2003
8 Canada 548,900,000,000 2002
9 India 547,200,000,000 2002

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Are you the same Chandresh who wrote the paragraph below? Just wondering.

Thanks

"Before I voluntarily resigned, till yesterday I had a job of a senior manager in a manufacturing company in toronto, with good prospects of rising in the organisation and getting reasonable financial rewards to lead a comfortable life with remuneration of my wife as a teacher in York School Board - but I have had enough of it - I DO NOT WANT TO CHANGE MY NAME FROM CHANDRESH TO CHARLES - AND MY WIFE DOES NOT LIKE SENDING A CHILD TO SOCIAL WORKER WITHOUT FIRST TRYING TO SORT OUT PROBLEMS WITH THE CHILD AND HIS FAMILY AND SHOWING THAT SHE REALLY CARES - and next month I am leaving this country - even without getting citizenship - BECAUSE THIS IS NOT THE KIND OF LIFE I WANT!

LEARN ONE THING FROM CANADIANS - IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT, YOU DONT HAVE TO LIVE WITH IT!"

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