Ontario schools get more money for art, music, gym

Music classes, art, gym and nature studies will get a $35 million boost to give children a more well–rounded education, announced Education Minister Kathleen Wynne yesterday at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School in downtown Toronto. The new grant is part of a $781 million hike in funding Wynne unveiled for Ontario schools, which also includes $10 million to help aboriginal students and $10.5 million for 177 schools that are small or very remote. Wynne said she was not handing out financial goodies to prepare for October’s provincial election. “Students in Grade 1 and 2 don’t know that there is an election coming and they really don’t care. What they care about is that their teacher has the resources that she needs and that their school has good, clean classrooms.” Read the article at TheStar.com.