LIBERALS STILL PANDERING TO TEACHERS

  Toronto Sun:  The Ontario Liberals are poised to scrap province-wide EQAO tests for Grade 3 and Grade 9 students if they get re-elected.
   They’re also proposing to eliminate mandatory requirements for high school students to pass a literacy test to graduate.
   And they’d water down province-wide tests for Grade 6 and Grade 9 students, according to the Ontario: A Learning Province report commissioned by Premier Kathleen Wynne and quietly released Tuesday by Education Minister Indira Naidoo-Harris
In reality, this is more cynical pre-election pandering by the Liberals – in this case to teachers, who have resisted large-scale standardized tests.