The First Province-Wide Student Newspaper

TORONTO - The Ontario Student Trustees' Association is excited to announce the first edition of the first province-wide student newspaper, The Papercut: The Student Voice.

The bimonthly journal is written entirely by students. In the first issue, a diverse group of teens from across the province tackles the question "what are schools and what should they become?"

"This paper embodies the unique perspective and vision of the voice that matters most in education - students. We are thrilled to initiate this new endeavour as a way to connect students across the province in open dialogue that strives to celebrate education and realise improvements," said association president Andrew Pawluch, of Sudbury.

The paper is being made available to school boards across the province by mail and an electronic copy, which will be placed on the association's website.

"The journal is a unique way to join the province's diverse student and youth population in a discussion of ideas," said OSTA communications director Jonathan Scott, the paper's editor. "We're very excited about the start and hope to make it better in the coming editions."

The paper is written with the goal of advancing the student vision in education, to help improve the quality of education in Ontario.

A copy of the newspaper is available by emailing director.communications@osta-aeco.org

As the largest student stakeholder in Ontario's education system, OSTA-AECO represents the 1.9 million students in the four publicly funded school sectors. The association promotes the unity without conformity of all affiliated student trustees in order to advance the student vision. Student trustees are youth representatives elected by their peers to bring the student voice to school board tables to improve the quality of education in schools across the province.