Schools with lack of educational assistants more likely to ask special needs students to stay home: report

EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared on The Trillium, a Village Media website devoted exclusively to covering provincial politics at Queen’s Park.

The People for Education report was based on its annual school survey sent to principals at schools across the province, with 1,030 responses from 70 of 72 school boards, representing 21 per cent of the province's publicly funded schools. Kidder said the bigger issue and question is whether the province has "really figured out all of our policy around special education" and the supports that are needed for students with special needs.

Earlier this year, teachers unions rejected the Ministry of Education’s request to support a temporary measure to increase the number of days retired teachers could work from 50 to 95 before their pension is affected, saying it's not a sustainable solution and doesn't help with retaining or attracting new educators.

"At the same time, low-income schools have more than double the proportion of students waiting for assessments," the report stated. "Assessments are important because once a student is assessed and identified with a special education exceptionality, they have a right to a range of special education supports."

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