Ontario won’t close schools for deaf and blind children

Rob Ferguson, Queen’s Park Bureau, Toronto Star, August 8, 2016
Education Minister Mitzie Hunter, shown earlier this year, says the decision to keep schools for deaf and blind children open was made after several months of consultation. The move follows protests by worried parents last winter and spring and an outcry from opposition parties at Queen’s Park, after the government stopped admissions at the schools in Milton, London, Belleville and Ottawa for the fall. But critics like David Lepofsky of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act Alliance charged the latest step falls miles short of what is needed by 334,000 students with special education needs.