Ontario education workers and parents are raising alarm bells over a province-wide educational assistant (EA) shortage as pre-school-year contract negotiations loom.
Because schools are short-staffed, advocates say care is “rationed” across multiple classrooms, leaving vulnerable students without steady support.
Pamela Boniferro, President of the Dufferin-Peel Education Resource Workers’ Association, told CBC Toronto that provincial funding models ignore the importance of human support over physical resources.