A union representing Ontario teachers is accusing the provincial government of muddling their finances, saying they are investing significantly less money into education than they claim.
The province has said it will spend an additional $698 million in Grants for Student Needs (GSN), the process in which school board funding per student is determined, for the 2023-2024 school year.
This, the government said, is 2.7 per cent more funding than school boards received a year prior.
But that number isn’t entirely accurate, the President of the Ontario Secondary School Teacher’s Federation (OSSTF) claimed Thursday.
“This is false,” Karen Littlewood told reporters at a news conference.
“They’ve artificially reduced the subtotal of the funding for the past school year in order to make the amount for the 2023-2024 school years seem artificially high by comparison.”
This was done by removing the more than $300 million in one-time COVID-19 learning recovery funding …