Text of an ETFO news release dated April 11: Toronto, ON – The Ontario government’s 2019 budget for public education does not meet the needs of students and schools, according to the Elementary Teachers’ Federation...
Ontario Education Minister Lisa Thompson says the Ford government will scrap a regulation that is designed to prevent nepotism and favouritism in hiring of full-time teachers. Lisa Thompson told the legislature on April 9 that...
“Students will suffer” if e-learning replaces classroom learning, says the author of a report that examined thousands of online classroom discussion threads. Beyhan Farhadi, who wrote the paper, was an e-learning teacher with the Toronto...
If a picture is worth a thousand words, the dozens and dozens of photos of the April 6 Rally for Education, published on social media by educators, parents, school-board trustees and supporters are enough to...
More than 30,000 protesters, some from as far away as Dryden, packed the lawn at Queen’s Park April 6 in a massive show of solidarity in the face of the Ford government’s education cutbacks. The...