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TERESA LATCHFORD AND AARON D’ANDREA Two elementary students are learning about calculating angles.

One student has read the textbook, listened to the teacher’s lesson, and is now completing the homework questions. Student two’s class has also raised funds to bring an engineer in to explain how angles are used to build bridges and for a field trip to Legoland to experiment with implementing the use of angles in model construction.

The question is, in a publicly-funded school system, are these two students receiving the same educational experience?

"It’s not an exaggeration to say fundraising can create have and have-not schools," People for Education executive director Annie Kidder told Metroland Media.

"There is no evidence that enriched learning has a direct impact on student test scores but it makes a big difference in a student’s overall learning experience."

The education advocacy group has been tracking school fundraising for years and has found an incredible range, with some schools reporting having raised nothing and others $400,000 in the span of one year. The same schools report spending the funds on everything from musical instruments to technology.

Ontario’s Ministry of Education defines fundraising as any activity permitted under a school board’s policy to raise money or other resources to enhance school programs or initiatives not covered by public funding.

Fundraising events must be approved by the school principal, in consultation with

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Grade 12 students work independently during teacher Hugh Tran’s math class at Father John Redmond Catholic Secondary School last September. Metroland Media is looking into fundraising data at several school boards across Ontario. the parent council, and comply with policy. These dollars, also known as schoolgenerated funds, are administered by the school principal and per ministry guidelines.

Although samples of money raised school-byschool show signs of this disparate fundraising, boards don’t have - or are reluctant to provide - comprehensive lists of figures for each school across their footprints.

Approved uses for these funds include field trips, guest speakers, scholarships, extracurricular activities, events, schoolyard improvement projects, upgrades to sporting facilities, and more.

While the ministry prohibits fundraising for classroom learning materials and textbooks as well as facility renewal, maintenance, and upgrades funded through provincial grants, a report penned by People for Education states 47 per cent of ele-

"There is no evidence that enriched learning has a direct impact on student test scores but it makes a big difference in a student’s overall learning experience."

–Annie Kidder mentary schools have paid for such things with fundraising. Of those schools, 94 per cent raised funds for technology resources, 25 per cent for online resources, and 12 per cent for textbooks.

Parent Gary Sims fundraises for his children’s schools to provide them with opportunities for different programs that his generation didn’t have when growing up.

"We fundraise just to make it easier for them," he said. "You have to give every kid a chance."

Nahum Mann, a parent representative within the Toronto District School Board’s

Parent Involvement Advisory Committee, told Metroland Media fundraising strategies should be in place to help foster community involvement.

"If a community understands what a school is trying to do and how those students will achieve it and be effective, I think it brings a realness to it," he said. "The sooner you include the community, there’s more ownership felt."

Mann added that a strategy where funds are being brought in by businesses may be a more successful approach in certain communities rather than asking par-

ents for money.

"I think that is like at least a move toward equity," he said.

Kidder points out that while one school has a beautiful playground where students can explore physical activity through play, another school may not have had the ability to raise the funds to do the same.

"Our school system shouldn’t reflect the socioeconomic status of the area," she added. "Rather than creating a level playing field in the public education system, this could actually be creating a double disadvantage for students."

Students growing up in an affluent neighbourhood already have access to learning enrichment through lessons and sports outside of school, and that continues within the school since parents have the income to financially contribute to the school.

However, those in a less affluent neighbourhood may not have the opportunity for enrichment in the community or in the school.

Kidder isn’t suggesting school fundraising should be abolished, but rather the education ministry needs to further define what is required for core learning and what is considered enrichment.

"For example, in art class is a pencil a core tool and are pencil crayons enhanced tools?" she asked. "There are guidelines on how the funds can be spent but there are also loopholes."

Her solution? The creation of a ministry document with clearly-defined definitions and guidelines regarding school-generated funds that is a living document, reviewed and amended often as the school landscape and education needs evolve.

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Fundraising facts for Toronto’s school boards

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Signs of inequality in school fundraising

AARON D’ANDREA adandrea@insidetoronto.com Each school board is required by the Ontario government to include school-generated funds in its annual financial statements.

During the 2014/15 school year, the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) generated close to $42.5 million in school-generated funds, while the Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB) raised $29.47 million.

In 2015/16, the TDSB gathered roughly $41 million in school-generated funds, and the TCDSB raised $29.18 million.

Close to 246,000 students attend the various 588 schools within the TDSB, and roughly 92,000 students make up the population within the TCDSB, which oversees 202 schools.

According to spokespeople with each board, school-by-school fundraising breakdowns couldn’t be provided unless a request was made under the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. Therefore, Metroland Media has filed a Freedom of Information request with each school board asking for a breakdown of every school’s fundraising records within its respective board.

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DOMINIK KUREK dkurek@insidetoronto.com Something beautiful is happening at Oakwood Collegiate Institute.

The community is working with the school and the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) to beautify the grounds, make them more useful for students and more accessible to neighbours.

An ad hoc landscaping committee comprised of school and board staff and students, community members, trustee Marit Stiles and others came up with a master plan to re-landscape the property. The entire plan will cost more than $1 million and take years to accomplish.

It will begin this summer with a $200,000 starting budget from the board to create a common ground plaza at the St. Clair and Oakwood avenues corner, on the northeast edge of the school property. The plaza

plan will remove the former fountain, which now has a sad-looking tree growing out of it; it will level the ground, and tables and benches, designed and built

by Oakwood students, will be installed. The benches and tables will be made of wood from locally cut ash trees that were damaged by the Emerald Ash Borer infestation.

"It means that the curriculum in the school actually has some relevance because it’s being used in reality. It’s not a dummy run; it’s not just for a mark," said Meredith MacFarquhar, a member of Friends of Oakwood.

The Friends of Oakwood, comprised of six local women, is working with the school to raise funds for the improvements. The plaza project is being funded by the board, but to get the rest of the master plan completed sooner the community will need to pitch in financially, the Friends say.

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The Friends of Oakwood, on front, Elizabeth Cinello (left), Angela Van Damme, Meredith MacFarquhar, Schuster Gindin, Jane Turrittin and Miria Ioannou (not pictured), are working with the school and the board to beautify the school’s grounds.

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"I have a very vested interest in ensuring Oakwood’s long-term viability as an academic, musicbased, art-based, sport-

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Besides the common ground, the master plan calls for moving the dilapi-

dated, outdoor basketball court to face Oakwood and Rosemount avenues, to make it more inviting, plus it would get a new surface and hoops.

The no-dogs-allowed, fenced-off sports field would get additional entry points to prevent people letting their dogs run free inside, and spectator seating would be installed.

An outdoor performance space with seating is planned in front of the school.

Raised flower beds, which students with disabilities will be able to use for gardening, would be installed.

All these projects will take time and money. The Friends are soliciting donations and are hosting several events in May to drum up support. Donations of $25 or more are eligible for tax receipts.

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School fundraisers create inequality for students If you think all children in Ontario’s publicly funded schools have the same opportunities, think again.

This month’s Metroland special investigation into inequalities in school fundraising uncovered what could be the tip of the iceberg.

Beyond the formula created to disperse provincial funding to schools, the schools and the people and organizations supporting them locally raise millions every year.

Parents and community members put their money where their hearts are, and boost cash-strapped schools with fundraising.

At some schools it’s a penny fair in June and a bake sale or two, at other schools there are galas and bigticket raffles - all supported through the generosity of monied parents and grandparents.

In other area’s, there’s virtually no fundraising.

According to a 2014 report by nonprofit People for Education, the top 10 per cent of fundraising schools raise as much as the bottom 81 per cent - money spent on student excursions, playground equipment, technology, arts supplies and more.

It’s no surprise growing up with the privilege that comes with wealth opens doors to additional opportunity, however, Canadians expect equality in education.

But it’s a sham.

Underfunded schools need the leg up they get from community fundraisers - in one small northern school the extra money meant the girls’ basketball team didn’t have to wear the already sweaty pinnies the boys had just competed in anymore.

In another school it could mean technical and cultural enrichment for students whose family income has already given them a leg up.

In the end, it’s not fair.

What we have learned is disturbing, but perhaps more disturbing was the message we received from most of the schools and boards we approached for fundraising details: how much does each school raise in the community?

The boards aren’t willing to divulge how much money they’re getting from their parent committees and book sales unless they are compelled to do so by legislation.

A few individual schools opened their books and we salute them; most insisted we file a freedom of information request.

We have done so, but this is a bureaucratic process and it will take time, likely months. When we get the data, we will share it with you; we’ll let you know how much your child’s school is raising and compare it to how much other schools across the province collect from their communities.

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Tory treads carefully around the bubble There’s a house beside a highway on-ramp in my North York neighbourhood that could be advertised as being "steps to tow trucks."

People with Texas plates bought it a year ago, renovated the front, and sold it the other week for $1.7 million, about twice what they paid.

There are almost no "bad" houses left in this city. Almost any residence can be sold, and fought over.

Two-bedroom condos are selling for what was, a few years ago, the price of a house.

And no government we have wants to do anything about it. Why would they?

Tax money keeps flowing in. Selling and fixing homes is the biggest thing

MIKE ADLER Edges of Toronto Toronto has.

We know it’s nuts. It’s entrenching the divide between Toronto’s haves and have-nots.

It’s jacking rents as owners of condos and houses pay off their investments.

Mayor John Tory met the city’s building and real estate and rental industries last week to show, he said, "a deep concern" for

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those finding it difficult to live here.

He emerged, repeating there would be no "eureka" moment, no magic solution, no risky measures to imperil the gushers of money.

People in the room told Tory a price correction will come, because these things happen.

Speculators are part of the bubble, they said, but there’s no proof on who’s doing what.

A year ago, Tory dismissed a foreign-buyer tax on homes, saying Toronto isn’t Vancouver.

He’s now considering a Vancouver-style tax on vacant homes, "as in completely empty," to boost supply.

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agents drive prices up. The real estate people acknowledged the rules on that are "fairly weak." Talk to their regulator.

My brother is renting a North York house from a man in China who bought it a year ago.

Another brother was just outbid on a house by a company, not a person, in Bloor West Village.

Half the city is rich on paper, and half is either trapped in ancient rentcontrolled apartments or paying whatever rents the market will bear.

We haven’t talked enough about what this is doing to Toronto, or how to fix it. We should.

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AARON D’ANDREA adandrea@metroland.com Two development applications in High Park North could have residents seeing major changes to the area in the future.

Preliminary reports presented at Etobicoke York Community Council April 4 show seven new rental buildings proposed within two blocks of each other, adding to the existing units between High Park Avenue and Oakmount Road.

The first application, submitted by Great West Life Realty Advisors in December 2016, proposes to demolish two existing blocks of rental townhouses and eliminate four existing two-bedroom rental units to build four new apartment buildings.

The buildings, which would be located between High Park Avenue and Pacific Avenue, south of Glenlake Avenue, would be 39, 34, 29 and eight storeys tall.

The second application, submitted by Minto Group in December 2016, proposes to build rental units comprised of two blocks of three-storey townhouses, one 33-storey apartment building with a three-storey base and another building of 29 storeys with an eight-storey base.

Also, a two-storey pavilion would be built to accommodate indoor amenity space and programs.

The units would be built on Pacific Avenue, Glenlake Avenue and Oakmount Road.

The proposed developments would add a total of 1,799 units to the neighbourhood.

The area currently has approximately 1,738 units.

Community council carried both reports, and now staff will be directed to schedule community consultation meetings for the developments.

Furthermore, staff will be directed to undertake an area-based character study

for the neighbourhoods that will look at existing area characteristics, and provide guidance on infill opportunities and constraints.

Ward 13 Parkdale-High Park Councillor Sarah Doucette told The Bloor West Villager she’s pleased staff will be conducting the studies.

"Instead of staff just looking at the Great West Life site, and then just the Minto site, we want to look at the whole neighbourhood and see what the intensification should be," she said. "If we look at it site by site, you’d probably get more intensification, but if you look at it as an apartment neighbourhood, we may come up with less intensification."

Staff will report findings to council no later than the second quarter of 2018.

Community consultations are expected to take place later this month or early May.

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An application is currently before Etobicoke York Community Council proposing an infill rental development comprised of two blocks of 3 storey townhouses, one 33-storey apartment building with a 3-storey base and another apartment building of 29 storeys with an 8-storey base on the lands municipally known as 111 Pacific Avenue, 255 Glenlake Avenue and 66 Oakmount Road.

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EVENTS l Friday, April 7 Pub Night at Lambton Park WHEN: 6 p.m. - 11 p.m. WHERE: Lambton House, 4066 Old Dundas Street, Toronto CONTACT: admin@lambtonhouse.org, www.lambtonhouse.org COST: This monthly pub night features the music of Memorial Park. No cover. Music starts at 8 p.m.

Junction Comedy Fridays WHEN: 8 p.m. - 11 p.m. WHERE: Magic Oven, 347 Keele Street, Toronto CONTACT: Billy Wiegand, 416-998-1015, Billy.danger.wiegand@gmail.com, https:// www.facebook.com/JunctionComedyFridays COST: Pay What You Can Rotating hosts Billy Wiegand and Sam Burns showcase fresh talent every week. l Saturday, April 8 Junction Geo presentation WHEN: 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.

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416-393-7692 COST: In this lecture staff will discuss information sources available online and at the library to assist tracing your family’s past. To register speak to staff or call. l Tuesday, April 11 Public health and climate change WHEN: 6 p.m. - 8 p.m. WHERE: Annette Street Library, 145 Annette St., Toronto CONTACT: Green 13 COST: Carol Mee is the lead manager on the recent "Climate Change and Health Strategy 2016" for the City of Toronto.

We’ve asked her to please speak about public health and climate change. l Wednesday, April 12 Cyber Seniors (55+) WHEN: 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. WHERE: Annette Street Library, 145 Annette St., Toronto CONTACT: Elaine Grisola COST: Participants are paired with a youth volunteer for one-on-one basic computer help and support.

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5 things to do this weekend l Thursday, April 6 Toronto Silent Film Festival WHEN: 7 p.m. - 11 p.m. WHERE: Various venues, Various venues, Toronto CONTACT: torontosilentfilm@gmail.com, http://www.torontosilentfilmfestival.com/ COST: $10-$20 Where Images do the Talking!

April 6 to 11 and April 23. l Friday, April 7 TIFF Kids International Film Festival WHEN: 10 a.m. - 11 p.m. WHERE: TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King Street West, Toronto CONTACT: 4165998433, customerrelations@tiff.net, tiff.net/kids COST: $10.00-$14.00 TIFF’s second biggest film festival offers unique screening experiences for the youngest film-lovers. Runs April 7-23.

The Green Living Show WHEN: 12 p.m. - 6 p.m. WHERE: Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 255 Front St. W., Toronto CONTACT: Erika Navarro, 905-3461230, enavarro@enterprisecanada.com, http://www.greenlivingshow.ca/ COST: $10-$15

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JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com The Ontario government is working with educators on a series of pilot projects that aim to better prepare today’s high school students for career and life success.

The career studies pilot projects, set to run through June, will be launched at 29 schools across the province and will focus on entrepreneurship skills, financial literacy, digital literacy and career/life planning.

Minister of Education Mitzie Hunter unveiled the plan at St. Mary Catholic Academy recently, noting that data will be collected until the end of this school year and will help shape the career studies curriculum across Ontario moving forward.

"In the face of changing times, our students need wider ranges of skills and knowledge to succeed," she said. "They’ll also need to learn how to be resilient and adaptable in a world where the only thing that is constant is change."

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Education Minister and Scarborough-Guildwood MPP Mitzie Hunter gets her hands dirty alongside St Mary Catholic Academy Grade 11 student Eugene Pestana recently. dents real-life skills that they will be able to apply both within and outside of the job market.

Hunter noted that financial literacy - a cause championed by the Toronto Youth Council - was a particularly vital skill for young people as they transition to post-secondary life.

"Strengthening financial literacy among students remains a priority for the Ontario government," she said.

The pilot projects will glean feedback from educators to determine the future of the career studies course, something that was touted as a must in the Premier’s Highly-Skilled Workforce Expert Panel report.

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Davenport MPP Cristina Martins noted the rapidly-changing world makes career studies courses a must.

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As for a favourite memory, he said, "Seeing anyone, especially the little ones, grow, blossom and have more self-confidence as

they continue is an ongoing memory."

Michael Ohnona has been a student of O’Connell’s for 21 years.

"I initially joined just for three months," Ohnona said. "I took karate to do something different. Twenty-one years later, I’m still there and he still has to put up with me."

Rather than a school for students, Ohnona said it was a community to most of them and it was because of O’Connell’s personality and demeanour.

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Ohnona said that O’Connell is not only his instructor, but a friend who’s always there for him and other students as well.

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"Sensei (O’Connell) forced me to train for my 4th degree black belt and in his mind it was ’distract Michael. Make him focus not on the fire, but something else.’

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Roeper was selected out of the six semifinalists competing in the Canadian Female Founders Hardware Cup last Tuesday, a showcase where startups pitch and demonstrate their products. The event was a part of a larger conversation to empower women in the wearable technology sector by discussing opportunities and challenges for women in hardware.

By winning the competition, Roeper moves on to the International Hardware Cup in Pittsburgh in April. Her winnings also include a $50,000 convert-

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Roeper’s company, PentaMedical, pitched the wearable healing band aptly called Helios.

The band is intended to help people heal faster with infrared wearable technology, which stimulates cell activity when soft tissue in the body is injured.

According to Roeper, studies show that infrared therapy can accelerate the healing process by 30 per cent. Roeper told Metroland Media she was inspired to create Helios when she broke a foot as a competitive horseback rider.

"That’s when I came up with the idea. For me, that was the first time seeing what an injury looks like and going through a healing process," she said.

Physiotherapy should have been done, she added, but admits she had no time,

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Learn what developers have Last call for tax returns at Arif Virani’s planned for Bloor-Dufferin tax clinic Final clinic will occur April 8 at 3725 Dundas St. W. The April 30 tax return deadline is approaching.

As a result, the last of Parkdale-High Park MP Arif Virani’s tax clinics will be happening April 8.

In February, Virani announced on his website he would be hosting several tax clinics in the community to help low-income families and individuals file their taxes.

Virani added in the post

single Canadians with incomes below $30,000, couples with incomes below $40,000, adults with a dependant with an income below $35,000 with an additional $2,500 added for each additional dependant are qualified to have their taxes prepared at the clinic.

The final clinic will take place at 3725 Dundas St. W. from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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Residents are invited to attend a pre-application meeting regarding a future community hub at the southwest corner of Bloor and Dufferin streets.

The meeting will take place on Thursday, April 13 in the cafeteria at Bloor Collegiate Institute from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.

At the meeting will be the purchasers of the Bloor-Dufferin Toronto District School Board lands, Capital Developments and Metropia, who are in the early stages of planning. In Councillor Ana Bailao’s newsletter, the developers will introduce themselves to attendees, share their initial thinking for the site and to

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The future location of a community hub is at Bloor and Dufferin streets. listen to ideas.

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As stated above, not for the first time. Just last month, Tory hosted Wynne’s finance minister, Charles Sousa, in his office, and before a phalanx of reporters and cameras took his government to task for its calculated decision to disallow Toronto’s plan to toll the Gardiner Expressway and the Don Valley Parkway. Sousa stood there grim-faced, no doubt hoping this might be the last of it.

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DAVID NICKLE The City used the relatively generous Liberal budget - billions into new infrastructure - to shame Wynne once more.

Tory is striking a soft spot and he knows it.

Wynne is historically unpopular - so much so that she is in danger of losing once-safe Liberal seats in Toronto. As an ally or a threat: Tory is formidable either way.

Playing the threat is a good strategy, heading into the provincial budget the last one before the more dubious 2018 election year budget. Funding for the downtown relief line approved in 2017 is

much more secure than phantom promises in 2018.

It also might seem a good strategy going into the provincial election next year. It certainly makes Toronto a player in that game and, played properly, it could turn into a win for Toronto.

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If polls don’t dramatically change, Wynne’s Liberals will be the long-shot, and Tory will have to choose between the New Democratic Party and the Progressive Conservatives the party he once led.

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