The New Democrats' education critic, Marit Stiles, wrote in the letter released Wednesday that she wants the ombudsman to determine if measures are in place to meet standards recommended by experts.

“Where I teach, my classroom is in a wing of a school that was built in the 60s. It's recycled air. I have great big windows but they don’t open, some of the people in my section don’t even have windows at all and I’ve had respiratory issues.”

The parents are part of a network of advocacy groups fighting to stop cuts to public education and include Ontario Families for Public Education, Scarborough Families for Public Education, West End Parents for Public Education and several others.

"[TeachON] will follow a similar model to the broader Teach Coalition, working with MPPs to secure proper funding for independent school," the organization said in a release.

Marit Stiles said in a release Saturday that "kids continue to pay the price" for Premier Doug Ford's education cuts.

The government plans to increase average high-school class sizes from 22 to 28 students.

The Ontario Association for Behaviour Analysis says Lisa MacLeod and her staff requested a quote of support a few days before the revamped program was announced last week.

Tom Mulcair lost a crucial vote of confidence this weekend at the NDP's convention in Edmonton, but you wouldn't know it on Parliament Hill Monday.