In response to disappointing results on literacy and numeracy tests, the Ontario government has announced a review of the province’s standardized testing system, the EQAO (Education Quality and Accountability Office). Instead of chasing elusive explanations...

Teacher negotiations haven’t even started, and already the two sides can’t agree.  A request from the big five teacher and school staff unions asking to begin bargaining “as soon as possible” — as early as this...

Contracts for Ontario’s teachers and education workers expire at the end of this summer and their union leaders are calling on the education minister to start the bargaining process early, saying issues such as class...

ETFO released a CB eNewsletter this morning.  It is regarding a joint media release to be issues shortly by all of the education affiliates calling on the government to begin bargaining as soon as possible....

THUNDER BAY — Local teachers’ unions and other labour groups are working to bring attention to the possibility school board trustees could be sidelined by an administrator appointed by the Ontario government, or perhaps replaced with an entirely new...