In December 2023, teacher and occasional teacher (OT) members of the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) ratified a central agreement that included the referral of compensation (salary and daily OT rate) to binding arbitration;...

Ontario’s English public elementary and high school teachers will receive nearly 12 per cent in wage increases over a four-year contract, an arbitrator ruled on Wednesday. The province reached deals on new contracts with all its...

Local teachers’ unions are raising the alarm on violence in classrooms. Together in Education (TIE), a group representing education workers from the Catholic and public school boards of Waterloo region, held a press conference Thursday...

A group representing educators in Waterloo Region gathered last week to discuss the results of a survey on classroom violence. It asked the region’s teachers and education assistants about their experiences, and the findings are...

The quotes from the education workers recounting violence in schools send shivers down Colleen Dietrich Sisson’s spine. “I thought I knew everything that was happening, and I have to be honest, I was brought to...