Communications

The Ontario government has finally released the review that investigating the TDSB for attendance at Grassy Narrows’ River Run march on September 18, 2024 (Final report on the review of the Toronto District School Board’s excursions policy and procedure) Toronto Palestinian Families (TPF) welcomes Patrick Case’s report on TDSB excursion policies, which confirms what Palestinian…

As the TDSB delays crucial reforms and fails to release promised educational tools, the community steps up to protect its students from escalating systemic racism. Toronto Palestinian Families, a community organization of Palestinian families and allies on a mission to ensure the physical, psychological and emotional safety of their children in TDSB schools has released…

In a pivotal decision made at 1:00 am on June 20, 2024, Toronto District School Board (TDSB) trustees voted to adopt the Combating Hate and Racism strategy, which now includes a commitment to combating anti-Palestinian racism (APR) alongside other named forms of oppression. This decision is a significant step forward for the TDSB community. However,…

Toronto — Toronto Palestinian Families call on the Board of Trustees at the TDSB to vote to support the Combating Hate and Racism strategy today.  We thank the Program and School Services Committee for accepting the Combating Hate and Racism strategy with the milestone addition of anti-Palestinian racism.  Watching the Committee meeting yesterday was a…

Toronto — Palestinian families, Jewish families, and their allies have come together in a powerful show of solidarity, sending hundreds of letters and completing 35 delegations to the Toronto District School Board (TDSB), over 4 meetings, in favour of supporting Palestinian families within the TDSB. On Tuesday, June 18, TDSB Trustees on the Program &…

TORONTO, ON– Palestinian and Jewish families of TDSB students held a joint press conference at the Toronto District School Board head office on Wednesday to draw attention to a pattern of anti-Palestinian racism in the Board. “For the past two years, Jewish families and Palestinian families have repeatedly urged the TDSB to address anti-Palestinian racism,”…