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He told them that warning the public of a *crisis" in education was the way to enlist public support for sweeping changes to the school system. Since then, the ministry has creatively sculpted the truth into the image of a bureaucratic system out of control. First, the Tories sponsored a study, now widely discredited for its methodology, that conâ€" cluded that Ontario spends “Hnmrapflhuh average of the other nine (a) manipulation of public perception (b) an attempt to minimize criticism by labelling individuâ€" als as "special interest groups" and shamelessly redefining Why? The reasons for this higher spending are many:and relate to the complexity of today‘s classrooms. We need more Englishâ€"asâ€"aâ€"Secondâ€" The Conservative governâ€" ment‘s insistence that Ontario is overâ€"spending on education is a classic example of MidpeciELOe! L1EI11TEB $ (c) creative interpretation of 2 FREE WATERPARK PASSES _ Y * _ OEDUCTIBLE! PLUS YOU RECEIVE OVER $95 IN BONUS ITEMS FROM uses a standardized later difficulties through speâ€" cial education programs. We educate more returning adults. More of our youth stay in Language programs with more than half of all immigrants to Caada:uderllleufiin Ontario and more than hall of those speaking neither English nor French, Ontario had endeavored to give its students a head start by emphasizing carly development in junior kindergarten and avoiding groups when they challenged the minister‘s definition of the classroom. The Tories meed this narrow definition to create the impression that their reductions are doing no harm in the classroom, a key clecâ€" tion promise which teachers and everyone close to a school know has already been broâ€" provinces, territories and US. states, Ontario ranks 46th in per pupil spending. More is spent on students in Georgia, Montana, West Virginia and South Dakota. More is spent in New York, Michigan and Verâ€" mont. More is spent in Maniâ€" toba, British Columbia and Quebec. The U.S.â€"national average is 20 per cent higher school until graduation Next, the minister created further havoc by claiming that 80 cents out of every dollar school boards spend is o-dhdnmln 80 cents pay for the costs of heat, light, cleaning, transâ€" portation, principals, viceâ€" principals, library, guidance and consultants. Try running a classroom without them. Forâ€" tunately even the minister has had to retract from this fallacy. Teachers and parents were labelled as special interest The truth is that of the 63 {MOST WINDSHIELDS) than Ontario‘s, FourtyAour states have a lower pupiloâ€" classroomâ€"teacher ratio than spending dropped by $372 between 1991 and 1996, the Americans are increasing their spending on education, a good investment in an increasingly highâ€"tech world. Ontarians outside the Queen‘s Park cabiâ€" net room seem in large meaâ€" sure to agree. An Environics poll founddl8 per cent of those surveyed said the same or more should be spent on eduâ€" cation, even if it meant higher taxes or a higher deficit. Three out of four people said further cuts would hurt the quality of education, a position which classroom teachers are coping with daily Seventyâ€"five per cen also said that they would give up the government‘s _ promised income tax reduction if that would prevent cuts to educaâ€" democratically elected school board trustees would decide to spend money enhancing our children‘s educational opporâ€" tunities. Even if that‘s what most of us want. When the government removed $800 million last year and a further $250 milâ€" lion this year, school boards struggled to maintain the qualâ€" ity of education through local means. Instead of being pleased that local ratepayers wanted to preserve the sysâ€" tem‘s quality while they to fund income tax reductions, the Tories stated that local tax increases were "not acceptâ€" able." 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