Day: 14 August 2025

Violence in Ontario schools on the rise. NDP: “It’s the result of the Ford government’s education cuts”

TORONTO – The number of violent incidents in Ontario’s classrooms has skyrocketed in recent years, according to a Global News journalistic research. The level of violence reported by school boards to the Ministry of Education has increased by 77%  since Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives took office in the Province, with over 4,400 incidents reported in the 2023-24 school year alone.