Ontario Province will Quash black-focused schools if they become a trend: premier

Chinta Puxley:

Ontario "won't hesitate" to prevent the segregation of kids according to race by quashing a proliferation of black-focused schools across the province if other school boards start following Toronto's lead, Premier Dalton McGuinty said Friday.

One day after McGuinty said he wouldn't overrule the Toronto District School Board's decision to establish one of Canada's first black-focused schools, McGuinty said he's not ruling out quashing the idea if Ontario boards start following suit.

"We'll be watching this very closely," McGuinty said before attending a Liberal caucus retreat in Kitchener, Ont.

"If I get a proposal next week from Ottawa and the week after that from Windsor and the week after that from Thunder Bay - if something takes hold here that runs clearly contrary to our vision of publicly funded education in the province of Ontario - then we will not hesitate to act."

Posted by Jim Zellmer at February 3, 2008 12:00 AM
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