Ontario's schools have lost nearly 90,000 students over the last six years. According to Statistics Canada, that trend is going to continue well into the foreseeable future.

Is Ontario's education policy and funding able to deal effectively with the decline without resorting to many school closings?

What is to be done?

"We need new thinking around this issue," says Annie Kidder, Executive Director of People for Education. "And it has to cross Ministries, sectors and all levels of government. We have to use this potential crisis as an opportunity to break down all the old barriers."

Find out more.

→ Read a student's perspective

→ Read the press release, April 23/08, Stratford Ontario.

→ Read our Report on Declining enrolment in Ontario Schools (including a list of boards where schools have already been recommended to close).