Even though Ontario students won’t be subject to regular standardized reading tests this school year, parents and teachers are warning that any screening tool is only useful if there are more resources to back it up....

The Ontario government is negotiating with its four teachers’ unions, which have been without a contract since August 2022. It was widely expected to be a challenging round of bargaining with the Progressive Conservative government....

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...

ETFO president explains why the union isn’t taking a deal for arbitration if labour talks fall through.

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...

In hopes of avoiding strikes this fall, Education Minister Stephen Lecce is increasing the pressure on other teacher unions to join a pact that would see contract talks continue until Oct. 27 and send outstanding issues...

TORONTO, Aug. 25, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Association des enseignantes et des enseignants franco-ontariens (AEFO), Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO), and Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Association (OECTA) issued the following statement today, in...

The Ontario government has announced it will enter a process with the province’s secondary school teachers’ union to avoid strikes and keep kids in school, pending a vote by members. “This tentative agreement sets out...