Commentary
The school year is over but a hard fact remains—Ontario is experiencing a significant teacher shortage. And obviously, schools cannot function well without qualified teachers in every classroom. To this end, the Ford government recently announced a $55.8 million investment in education faculties in universities across the province. The goal is to create extra spaces in these faculties so an additional 2,600 new teachers can be trained and certified.
At first glance, this seems like a reasonable solution to an intractable problem. However, university degrees are already highly subsidized by Ontario taxpayers. Giving even more tax dollars to education faculties is going to make the problem worse, not better….