Dr. Marc Spooner is a professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Regina. Marc is, arguably, Canada's foremost authority (and critic) on Performance-based models of funding for Post-Secondary institutions and we were pleased to continue our exploration of this topic today on Hurley in the Morning ..read more

Chris Glover is the Member of Provincial Parliament for the riding of Spadina-Fort York in Toronto. He serves as the NDP Critic for Colleges and Universities and so it is not surprising that he has some poignant (and important) things to say about the provincial government's plans to move towards a Performance-based Funding model for post-secondary institutions in the province ..read more

Rick Kelly is the Founder of Just Us—A Centre for Restorative Practice. He joins us this morning to talk about his perspective on the Ontario government's plan to move towards a Performance-based Funding Model for Post-Secondary institutions ..read more

Ann Weiler is an experiential educator for the Waterloo Catholic District School Board and her heart for quality arts education has her concerned about the Ontario government's move towards a performance-based funding model for the province's post-secondary institutions. What could this do to the availability of arts and humanities programs offered at colleges and universities? What could this do to the way young people approach arts education in their secondary years? Follow Ann on Twitter: @aweninspiration ..read more

This week, the Ontario government re-introduced its plans to move to a Performance-based Funding model for the province's post-secondary institutions. Dr. James Skidmore is Director, Waterloo Centre for German Studies at the University of Waterloo. Dr. Skidmore joins me today to talk about the impact of the model and what it could mean for the look of Ontario's post-secondary systems, the people who teach there and the students who enrol. Here's a link to the full government announcement: https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/59368/promoting-excellence-ontario-implements-performance-based-fundi ..read more

Dr. Ken Saltman, Professor of Education Leadership, UMass is joined by Erika Shaker, Director of the Education Project at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. We continue to dig deeper into issues around the privatization and corporatization of the Canadian public education space ..read more

How is the current COVID-19 crisis impacting students who are already marginalized by the traditional structures of schooling? Are there ways of rethinking our current approach to remote learning to embrace the principles of culturally relevant pedagogy? Alison Gaymes is Centrally Assigned Principal for Principal Coaching, Equity & School Improvement with the Toronto District School Board. Ramon San Vicente is a principal with the Toronto District School Board, educational activist, and author of various texts. Both Alison and Ramon have a passionate commitment for exploring critical pe ..read more

Over the past few months, we’ve been exploring issues around our social commitments to public education, evidence that many governments have moved away from seeing education not as an investment, a cost centre, a market and, indeed, an industry. What’s at the heart of this apparent march towards privatization of public education? What can we, as a public do, to read the language that governments, corporations and even financiers are using when they talk about public education. Dr. Ken Saltman is a Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at UMass. Dr. Saltman works at the interse ..read more

Monica Kristin Blair is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Virginia and a Jefferson Scholars Foundation Fellow. Blair’s dissertation is entitled, “From Segregation Academies to School Choice: The Post-Brown History of School Privatization." Monica sheds light on the history of the privatization of public schools in the US and suggests some of the signs that we may want to be watching for in the Canadian context. We also talk about how we might open up spaces for the conversation about privatization of public goods ..read more

Andréa Grebenc is Chair of the Halton District School Board. In this conversation, Ms. Grebenc shines a light on some of the aspects of public school funding that often go unnoticed and under-reported ..read more