Announcement - Ontario students with disabilities

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Ontario lawyer Baker reports that approximately 60% of

Ontario students with disabilities, who would have been

graduating from high school in previous years, will be denied the

right to graduate because they have not met the discriminatory

literacy standards established by the previous government. These

students will not be able to attend post-secondary institutions

or entering apprenticeship programs. A group of families have

called on the new government to suspend this discriminatory

" high stakes " testing until accommodations can be provided and

adequate programming provided. If you agree that students with

disabilities should not be forced to drop out without

graduating, write to the Minister of Education Gerard Kennedy at

the Ministry of Education, 22nd Floor, Mowatt Block, 900 Bay St.,

Toronto, M7A 1L2, fax or e-mail him at

mailto:minister@... Please send a copy of your letter

to Baker at mailto:dbaker@...; 400-672 Dupont St.,

Toronto, M6G 1Z6; fax: .