"We will establish a wage grid for child care workers and ensure decent work standards to keep them on the job." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for the North, retrieved 2025-02-20

"We will end the stress and uncertainty of applying at dozens of child care centres and following up endlessly to secure a spot and establish one single Daycare Application Portal for each region to make it easier to find quality childcare close to home." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22

"We will ensure access to French language education programs close to home, and invest in French-language child care, a proven gateway to French language education." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for the North, retrieved 2025-02-20

"Invest in “ready for kindergarten pro- grams” to provide school readiness to alleviate the challenges schools and families face in transitioning to school" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Accelerate program expansion through access to funding and planning grants for non-profit centres that wish to expand in regions in which more care is needed" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Create a province-wide child care plan that is proactive, publicly managed, predictable and integrated that provides targeted investments and expansions in areas without adequate care that includes clear goals and timelines, especially for underserved communities" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Address the critical shortage and retention of early childhood educators by immediately increasing wages for child care workers through the implementation of a publicly funded wage grid that ensures child care providers have the funds available to pay fair, equitable wages, benefits and pensions while also being able to provide quality care" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Provide adequate funding to ensure the survival of before- and after-school care, including added supports for children with special needs" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Cancel the planned cut of $85.5 million and cost-share changes imposed on municipalities" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"AAddress (sic) the growing waitlist for te (sic) Ontario Autism Program (OAP) core services by building the capacity of autism providers, and increasing funding to the OAP to bring families into the program as rapidly as possible" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Establish an ultimate wait time benchmark for diagnosis and access to core services once registered in the program" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Work with the federal government and other provinces in finalising the creation of a National Autism Strategy to develop standards and a funding model to provide supports and services for autistic people of all ages" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Strengthen the cross-sector collaboration between the Ministries of Education, Health, and Children, Community & Social Services in program development." — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"We’ll invest in Francophone education in French school boards and French immersion programs in the English system." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

"We will protect the right to Francophone education. Francophones in Ontario have the right to access to government services, health care, retirement living, and kindergarten-to-post-secondary education in French, in French-language institutions. We’ll invest in Francophone education in French school boards and French immersion programs in the English system and redouble efforts to ensure there are enough Francophone teachers in the system." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Strengthen French education across Ontario by supporting community and cultural partnerships, training, inter-board cooperation and hiring additional French educators." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

"We will reverse Ford’s education cuts and invest in a new, needs-based funding formula. The Ford government has cut education funding by $1,500 per student since 2018, leaving schools with fewer teachers and larger class sizes." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for Southwest Ontario & Niagara, retrieved 2025-02-20

"And we’ll make sure students can get to class reliably and on time by fixing Ford’s broken student transportation funding." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

"We will fix student transportation funding. Students across Northern Ontario lost bus services when the Ford government increased the distance eligibility. Attendance rates among students in Thunder Bay who lost access to the bus service have dropped. We will make sure you can count on a school bus to come on time for your child to get to and from school safely, by fixing the student transportation funding formula." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for the North, retrieved 2025-02-20

"We will review the funding model to focus on student needs and not numbers of students to support vulnerable students." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

"Close the funding gap of $1,500 per student in the K-12 sector and ensure future commitments are tied to inflation." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Immediately increase per-student funding by $1,500 to make up for the $3.1 billion in cuts by the Ford government since 2018" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Ensure the updated formula includes adequate funding for special education assistants, counsellors, social workers, ESL teachers, and other supports to provide equitable access to learning and school activities for all students" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Establish an independent review of Ontario’s education funding formula so it adequately reflects student needs, and review the formula every five years" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Establish an Education Task Force that includes education workers and students. The task force will provide input on education policy and funding models, and help to address critical issues, such as staff shortages and the design of special education supports and programs" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"We’ll end the practice of streaming and make sure we are using data to support more equitable schools." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

"We will review the funding model to focus on student needs and not numbers of students to support vulnerable students." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

"Hire more staff. Large class sizes, less direct support, it can be hard to learn in Ford’s Ontario. Dedicated teachers, educational assistants, child and youth workers, ECEs, custodial and trade workers – they make all the difference helping students get the one-on-one attention they need and maintaining a nurturing learning environment. Having more caring adults in schools makes them safer for everyone." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

"We will consult on the restoration of one year teacher’s college programs to help get more qualified teachers in the system, faster." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22

"We will improve access to Autism services by creating incentives for mental health professionals, social workers and speech and language to work in schools and community settings in the North." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for the North, retrieved 2025-02-20

"Hire more mental health professionals, educational assistants, Early Childhood Educators (ECEs), social workers, child and youth workers and other staff, lowering the ratio of students to education workers in the Core Education Funding." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Allow every elementary, middle or high school student to have support and supervision in the classroom by establishing a lower student-to- teacher and education-worker ratio." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Commit to mutual respect and collaboration between the Ministry of Education, students, parents, teachers, unions and administrators starting with a commitment to not blindside educators with Friday afternoon announcements." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Fund staffing models with adequate qualified educators to reduce class sizes and provide necessary student supports" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Cap grades four to eight class sizes to, at most, 24 students and kindergarten to, at most, 26 students and ensure the class is staffed with a full-time certified teacher and a designated early childhood educator" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Implement a dedicated tuition waiver to attract students into post-secondary education programs to earn degrees in careers experiencing shortages" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Immediately reverse the Ford government’s cuts to OSAP by converting loans to grants for low and middle income students and eliminating interest charges on student debt" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"We’re committed to investing in public post-secondary education, permanently increasing base funding and investing in research and innovation to maintain our competitive edge." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for Southwest Ontario & Niagara, retrieved 2025-02-20

"Innovation starts with education. We’re committed to investing in public post-secondary education at institutions like Lakehead University, Northern College, Cambrian College, and funding a dedicated French Universite de Sudbury. We will permanently increase base funding and ensure they have the reliable funding they need to deliver world-class education." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for the North, retrieved 2025-02-20

"We’ll invest in public post-secondary education, increase per student funding by 20%, and tie future increases to inflation. Universities and colleges are at a breaking point, many posting deficits and cutting programing. Decades of Liberal and Conservative cuts have left Ontario with the lowest per-student funding in Canada for post-secondary education. We would work with the sector to review the funding formula to sustain Ontario’s world class post- secondary education and keep up with growing demand and student needs." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22

"We will work with Indigenous post-secondary institutions, like the Seven Generations Education Institute to offer more programs and credentialling." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for the North, retrieved 2025-02-20

"Establish a province-wide policy mandating post-secondary institutions to increase their focus on IP generation and commercialization, and business adoption of skills, technologies, and ideas." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Replace the faulty performance-based university funding model and restore the more stable and equitable enrolment-based funding model" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Immediately increase per-student university and college funding by 20% and commit to ongoing annual increases matching inflation" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Modernise funding models for colleges to incentivise part-time enrolment so that more students can learn and upskill our workforce and continue the expanded funding for the Small, Northern and Rural Grant" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Fix our schools. Ontario’s schools are saddled with a massive repair backlog left behind by the Liberals, and it has only grown under Ford’s Conservatives. Freezing classrooms without heat in the winter, gyms and cafeterias with leaking roofs. We’ll fix schools to give students a high quality, nurturing learning environment. We will invest an additional $830 million a year to clear the repair backlog within 10 years while keeping up with school maintenance needs." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

"Clear the school repair backlog and install heating, air conditioning and air filtration systems in every classroom by doubling annual capital funding for schools." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Build 90 new schools over the next four years and ensure that no school needs to use portables." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Feed students. Kids can’t learn on an empty stomach. Families are facing record high grocery bills, and inflation from tariffs could drive up costs even further. We’ll create a universal School Food Program so that every child in Ontario is set up to succeed. Ontario already feeds some kids in school, we’ll expand it for all and use fresh food prepared and grown right here in Ontario to do it. We can help kids focus on their teacher, not their hunger, and give families some financial relief." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

"Feed every elementary and secondary school kid a free and healthy lunch every school day by quadrupling funding for school food programs." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

To ensure that every person in the province has access to a proper diet.

"Provide funding to school boards to ensure students and educators have access to mental health supports, when and where they need it" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Homes Ontario will help create thousands of new jobs in residential construction, while keeping skilled labour employed in periods of market slowdown." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22

"We will support pathways into the skilled trades, from shop classes to those seeking a career change later in life, with continued investment in the Skills Development Fund and workers’ training centres across the province." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Cut youth unemployment by half by creating 40,000 new paid co-op, internship and apprenticeship positions through tax credits for employers who hire young people." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Doug Ford renewed the Ontario PCs’ commitment to enforce compulsory certification in the electrical trade and ensure all electrical workers in Ontario are registered apprentices or have a certificate of qualification." — ontariopc.ca, retrieved 2025-02-19

"$165 million for a “Learn and Earn” initiative to help workers earn a paycheque in the skilled trades while receiving in-class and on-the-job training . Key initiatives include:

1. $120 million to expand the existing Apprenticeship Development Benefit, including a new On-The-Job Training Support Stream to cover up to $2,500 for dependent care, learning supports and transportation costs .
2. $30 million to expand the existing Apprenticeship Completion Bonus that offers a grant of $2,000 for apprentices who complete either a Red Seal or Non-Red Seal trades certification .
3. $15 million to extend and expand the Tools Grant program to support apprentices with the cost of tools and equipment for their trade by increasing and standardizing the amount eligible to $1,000 for all in-scope trades ."

— Our Plan to Protect Ontario, retrieved 2025-02-26

"Create hundreds of thousands of new jobs by retrofitting 40% of existing homes and workplaces to net zero by 2035, and 100% by 2045" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Give 60,000 people the skills and experience to work in the green economy through a year of free college tuition plus a year long apprenticeship when they graduate" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Allow schools to address their unique staffing and infrastructure needs by expanding funding, eligibility and flexibility for the Safe Schools Grant program." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Create a sector-specific regulation for the education sector under the Occupational Health and Safety Act that considers and addresses the unique nature of education workplaces" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Expand funding and eligibility for safe school grants to allow school boards to hire additional qualified staff such as professional student support personnel, educational assistants, and other education workers into the public education system" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22