Antiracism and Ethnocultural Equity in Schol Boads: Guidelines in 1993
In 1993, Dave Cooke, then Minister of Education and Training, released guidelines for policy development and implementation of antiracism and ethnocultural equity in school boards.
The policy document was intended to assist schools and school boards in ensuring that the principles of antiracism and ethnocultual equity were observed everywhere in Ontario's school system.
In 1995, before the policy had been fully implemented, it was scrapped by a new government. The Equity Department was closed, the review of the curriculum was cancelled and, though the policy memoranda still exist on the books, boards are no longer held accountable for developing local antiracism and equity policies. Provincial funding for equity programs and policy was cut.
