A New Education Politics: Bob Rae's Legacy and the Response of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation (Our Schools)

By George Martell

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550284886
• ISBN13: 9781550284881
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Lorimer
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.0" x 5.5"