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A New Education Politics
Bob Rae's Legacy and the Response of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation
by George Martell
A critical examination of the public sector cuts made by Bob Rae's NDP government of Ontario in the early 1990s, placing tham in the broader context of a neo-conservative approach to educational reform.
In 1995, after five years of startling policy reversals, a spate of scandals and resignations, a global recession, high interest rates, a mounting deficit, Bob Rae's NDP government in Ontario was swept from power after a single term.
The biggest factor in the defeat was the Social Contract of 1993, a program of financial cuts that alienated teachers and public sector unions, the very people who brought Rae to power in 1990. George Martell, one of Canada's leading education writer-activists, here presents a detailed history of the Social Contract negotiations, and the pivotal role the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation (OSSTF) played in this dramatic struggle.
A New Education Politics anatomizes the corporate agenda of public sector downsizing and education reform, examining how this agenda overtook Bob Rae's NDP government.
An Our Schools/Our Selves book.
The biggest factor in the defeat was the Social Contract of 1993, a program of financial cuts that alienated teachers and public sector unions, the very people who brought Rae to power in 1990. George Martell, one of Canada's leading education writer-activists, here presents a detailed history of the Social Contract negotiations, and the pivotal role the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation (OSSTF) played in this dramatic struggle.
A New Education Politics anatomizes the corporate agenda of public sector downsizing and education reform, examining how this agenda overtook Bob Rae's NDP government.
An Our Schools/Our Selves book.
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"Readable and straightforward... this book has much to offer students, parents, and teachers who are either involved in public education or the labor movement."
Rebecca Murdoch, Canadian Book Review Annual
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