Education re-imagined

Debbie L. Kasman is an education analyst, researcher, and author with more than 40 years of experience in Ontario’s public education system, including roles as principal, Acting Executive Superintendent, and Student Achievement Officer at the Ministry of Education. She holds an M.Ed. in Policy Studies from OISE/University of Toronto.

Debbie is a frequent media commentator on education governance, school-board oversight, and student achievement. She has appeared on CBC Metro Morning and London Morning, CTV News, Global News Radio (including The Morning Show with Devon Peacock and London Live with Mike Stubbs), 640 Toronto’s Toronto Today with Greg Brady, and Newstalk 1010’s The Jerry Agar Show, and has been widely quoted in the London Free Press and other outlets. She is also a contributor of op-eds on Ontario education policy and governance to the Toronto Sun and the Ottawa Sun.

In April 2026, at the invitation of Ontario’s Minister of Education, she appeared before the Standing Committee on Social Policy to support Bill 101, the Putting Student Achievement First Act, 2026. Her written submission and the official Hansard transcript of the committee proceedings are available for reference.