Education Minister Stephen Lecce says the province will increase average class sizes to 25 instead of the 28 it had originally proposed.
But the union representing high school teachers says the province is only telling half the story.
Harvey Bischof, president of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation (OSSTF), says Lecce failed to mention a clause in the proposal that removes all reference to class size limits.
“With the removal of locally-enforceable class size caps, there would essentially be no limits on the size of classes into which Ontario students could be squeezed.”
The OSSTF says the 25:1 class size ratio would still remove roughly 5,000 teachers from high schools.
