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Ontario antes up $100M for special ed -- with strings, July 28.
After reading about the plight of special education students like my boy, who has cerebral palsy and is the Young Ambassador for the local Easter Seal Society, it has become patently obvious to Logan and me that strong measures must be taken to make things right for the kids who need Intensive Student Amount (ISA) funding the most.
The changes to the criteria for ISA funding were much-needed reforms that Elizabeth Witmer, the past education minister, put in place to clarify the level of need necessary to meet the requirement of ISA's four levels of support. In order for local school boards to escape responsibility, they simply over-ascribed the higher levels of funding instead of explaining to parents why their children never qualified.
I pray this is not lost on Education Minister Gerard Kennedy. Compliance program agreements with the school boards will make them accountable, just like they will for hospitals.

Mark-Alan Whittle, Hamilton