York Region District School Board has ratified a new four-year collective agreement with the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario Occasional Teachers, York Region, representing about 2,500 teachers at the board.

For Gurpreet Kaur Bains, two words describe the teacher shortage plaguing Canadian schools: “chaotic and stressful.” “We are always short teachers, and it’s a hard time filling out certain positions,” the learning support teacher told The Current’s Matt Galloway. “Personally,...

Four teacher unions, four collective agreements reached. No job action. But with no love lost between the unions and the Ford government, the question is how they were able to reach deals and avoid any...

The Ford government has reached a tentative agreement with the Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Association (OECTA). The union that represents 45,000 teachers said the agreement was made after more than 20 months of negotiations and...

More than 1,200 incidents of violence were reported at public schools in Algoma, according to a document presented at this week’s board meeting. But the Algoma Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario (ETFO) said incidents are...

Ontario schools can’t recruit or retain enough teachers thanks to a “mess” created by the Ford government, Ontario’s four teachers’ unions charge. Union leaders were responding to comments made Wednesday by Education Minister Stephen Lecce,...

Minister of Education Stephen Lecce and the Ford government have finally admitted that they have a teacher recruitment and retention problem. In an article published in the Toronto Star on February 21, the minister said...

The province is looking at “every option available” to help ease a shortage of teachers that has hit school boards across Ontario, says Education Minister Stephen Lecce. “We’ll have an announcement forthcoming,” Lecce told reporters...

Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce says the province has reached a deal with teachers in the French-language public system. “I am pleased to announce that we have reached a tentative central agreement with the Association...

In a victory for nurses, teachers and thousands of unionized public sector workers, Premier Doug Ford’s government is backing down on another major policy — his controversial wage restraint legislation. The sudden shift came Monday...