Geoff Johnson: Ontario education minister's back to basics focus is all about politics (TIMES COLONIST)

Any time the words “public school system” and “trans” anything are used in the same sentence these days, there’s a good chance raucous protest groups will show up at a school board meeting.

That wasn’t the case, however, when Premier Doug Ford’s government embarked on what it called a ­“transformation” of Ontario’s school system that includes a “getting back to the basics of education” agenda and giving the education minister more power ...

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