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1. Support One (1 English 1 French) Public Funded School System for Ontario 
It is time that the ONDP modernizes its Education Policy to reflect the realities of present day Ontario by revoking its support of public funding for Catholic schools and replace it with a policy that supports the establishment of a single publicly funded school system made up of English and French language public school boards.
It should be noted that there are four publicly funded school systems in Ontario and that they exist in all areas of the province. They are: English Public School Boards; English Roman Catholic Separate School Boards; Public French Language School Boards; and Roman Catholic French Language School Boards.
Four educational systems serving overlapping jurisdictions have created too many inefficiencies, too much red ink and huge waste of public money and resources. Buttressing a crumbling infrastructure and duplicating administrative costs is a misuse of tax dollars. By merging the public and separate school systems into a single public system would result in huge savings that could be directed into sustainable student programs, services and school classrooms.
