“Ontario students are paying the price”: New CUPE-OSBCU report uses government data to expose worsening understaffing in schools; Ontario education workers call for investment in student support.

TORONTO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–A new report from the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) and the Ontario School Board Council of Unions (OSBCU) reveals a deepening understaffing crisis across Ontario’s schools, leaving students’ needs unmet and education workers facing unsustainable workloads. The report documents staffing pressures affecting Educational Assistants, Designated Early Childhood Educators, Child and Youth Workers, school office staff, custodians, maintenance and trades workers, a