There’s something sad about a darkened classroom in summer: chairs piled haphazardly on desks enabling a deep clean of the floor, stripped-down walls revealing none of the lessons learned within. But then, come September, a...
Kids are returning to school this fall amid some uncertainty as teachers continue to negotiate for new contracts. None of the four unions representing teachers and some education workers in Ontario have reached a consensus...
Ontario’s elementary teachers’ union is applying for conciliation and holding strike votes as negotiations with the government to reach a new contract have stalled. In a news conference in Toronto on Monday, Karen Brown, president...
Education Minister Stephen Lecce is trying to “bully” teacher unions into setting contracts through binding arbitration to avert strikes, says the head of the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario. Pushing back against Lecce’s plan — which the union...