Curtis Jack

Trustees, the Board, and the Province

Protecting frontline classroom resources and special education by reducing administrative overhead and pushing Queen's Park to modernize outdated funding models. Backed by extensive experience managing multi-million-dollar budgets, I will audit TDSB expenditures to keep funding directed toward teachers and educational assistants. Combed with a proven record of aligning complex stakeholder teams, I bring the governance skills needed to work with fellow trustees. As a local parent, my focus is practical student outcomes, not bureaucracy.

Bullying in Schools

The short answer is advocacy, transparency and communication. Bullying has always and will likely continue to be an unfortunate part of growing up and we should all be made aware of the tools at our disposal to address it when it rears its head. Ensuring that instances of bullying are surfaced with the right people, and communicating with the communities to make sure that they are aware of the support mechanisms in place at their disposal to address these instances when the do arise.

Class Sizes and Staffing

First and foremost, I would work to protect funding for special education needs and EA's to assist with chronic daily shortages, and potentially improve retention. I would work to cap outlier class sizes to ensure that intermediate and secondary classes don't balloon past reasonable sizes to fit the board-wide average. Finally, work toward minimizing fall re-organizing, by improving spring enrolment forecasting to reduce thrashing in class rooms and teacher assignment.

Special Programs and Program Access

I would work to direct funding toward EA staffing and professional supports to ensure that students with Intensive Support Programs and Individual Education plans are able to fulfill their needs within their home school and not need to bus out of area for assistance. I would work to review the board’s student transportation policy ensuring families that rely on transit are accepted into regional specialized programs have viable transit support.