The proposal includes a hard cap of 20 students in all classrooms and 10,000 new teachers.
ontario education
The province's base education budget is scheduled to increase by 2.5 per cent this year.
Spending on public schools in Ontario increased from $25.5 billion to $27.9 billion.
Between 2006/07 and 2015/16, per-student inflation-adjusted spending on public schools in Ontario increased by 18.5 per cent.
Spending on public schools in Ontario increased from $20.2 billion to $26.6 billion.
Over a decade, inflation-adjusted per-student spending rose by 18.5 per cent.
Less than half of Grade 6 students met the provincial benchmark in math last school year.
Ontario is one of only three provinces that deliver religious education in the public school system.
A recent analysis found that Catholic school boards in Ontario are increasingly enrolling non-Catholic students.
Ontario has a higher percentage of students in independent schools than Alberta and Saskatchewan.