09-07-2020 21:26 via news.yahoo.com

Ontario premier says new measures to help fix 'broken' education system

Ontario is taking steps to make its "broken" education system more equitable for Black and indigenous students in Canada's most populous province, Premier Doug Ford said on Thursday.New measures include phasing out the so-called practice of streaming, when 9th grade students must choose whether they want to take university-track "academic" courses or hands-on "applied" courses in high school.A 2017 report from York University in Toronto found streaming disproportionately channeled Black students
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