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Metro teachers left their classrooms May 14 to march on Queen's Park in protest against the ceilings imposed on spending by Education Minister Thomas (...)
Metro teachers left their classrooms May 14 to march on Queen's Park in protest against the ceilings imposed on spending by Education Minister Thomas (...)

Metro teachers left their classrooms May 14 to march on Queen's Park in protest against the ceilings imposed on spending by Education Minister Thomas (...)

Date5/30/1973
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Original Toronto Star caption: Metro teachers left their classrooms May 14 to march on Queen's Park in protest against the ceilings imposed on spending by Education Minister Thomas Wells. Yesterday he appointed a four-member commission to investigate school financing problems in Metro.
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Object NumberTSPA_0012442F
      Students protest ceilings on school spending, Queen's Park
      Students protest ceilings on school spending, Queen's Park
      Lennon, Frank
      5/29/1973
      Teachers with signs mass outside Queen's Park in their one-day demonstration against Education Minister Thomas Wells' bill to retroactively prohibit r(...)
      Teachers with signs mass outside Queen's Park in their one-day demonstration against Education Minister Thomas Wells' bill to retroactively prohibit r(...)
      Goode, Jeff
      1/18/1973
      Education minister Thomas Welss tries to address 30,000 teachers at Queen's Park yesterday, despite their chants of resign, resign, resign as he spoke(...)
      Education minister Thomas Welss tries to address 30,000 teachers at Queen's Park yesterday, despite their chants of resign, resign, resign as he spoke(...)
      Spremo, Boris
      12/18/1973
      Education minister Thomas Wells talks with some of the seveal hundred teachers who virtually took over Queen's Park yesterday afternoon in a demonstra(...)
      Education minister Thomas Wells talks with some of the seveal hundred teachers who virtually took over Queen's Park yesterday afternoon in a demonstra(...)
      Beaty, Keith
      12/11/1973
      Student walkout protests spending ceilings, Singing students loll on the front lawn of Keiller Mackay High School in Etobicoke after they walked out t(...)
      Student walkout protests spending ceilings, Singing students loll on the front lawn of Keiller Mackay High School in Etobicoke after they walked out t(...)
      Erikson, Ray
      10/26/1973
      Toronto students demonstrate at city hall against spending ceilings, Some laughing, some serious, 7,000 high school students hold a rally in City Hall(...)
      Toronto students demonstrate at city hall against spending ceilings, Some laughing, some serious, 7,000 high school students hold a rally in City Hall(...)
      Lennon, Frank
      11/13/1973
      About 20,000 students in Peel Region walked out of their high school classrooms yesterday to protest the breakdown in negotiations between teachers an(...)
      About 20,000 students in Peel Region walked out of their high school classrooms yesterday to protest the breakdown in negotiations between teachers an(...)
      Calleja, Frank
      4/6/1977
      Teachers protest: Jeers from 1,200 teachers greet Education Minister Sean Conway's announcement at Queen's Park the province has no plans to get involved in college strike
      Teachers protest: Jeers from 1,200 teachers greet Education Minister Sean Conway's announcement at Queen's Park the province has no plans to get involved in college strike
      Slaughter, Mike
      11/8/1989
      Striking Metro teachers, above, should return to their classrooms if they want respect, one reader says
      Striking Metro teachers, above, should return to their classrooms if they want respect, one reader says
      Spremo, Boris
      11/14/1975
      Protesting the call for binding arbitration by Education Minister Thomas Wells, 1,600 York Region teachers, parents and students march through Aurora (...)
      Protesting the call for binding arbitration by Education Minister Thomas Wells, 1,600 York Region teachers, parents and students march through Aurora (...)
      Goode, Jeff
      3/11/1974
      Protesting the call for binding arbitration by Education Minister Thomas Wells, 1,600 York Region teachers, parents and students march through Aurora (...)
      Protesting the call for binding arbitration by Education Minister Thomas Wells, 1,600 York Region teachers, parents and students march through Aurora (...)
      Goode, Jeff
      3/12/1974
      Calling on Education Minister Thomas Wells to end the strike by Metro's 8,800 secondary school teachers, 100 Etobicoke high school students mass at Qu(...)
      Calling on Education Minister Thomas Wells to end the strike by Metro's 8,800 secondary school teachers, 100 Etobicoke high school students mass at Qu(...)
      Spremo, Boris
      11/20/1975