The Ottawa Catholic School Board is planning to dip into reserves to balance its budget for the next school year. Trustees will receive the $649-million budget for the 2023-24 school year on Tuesday night for...
TORONTO, ON – The following is a statement from the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) on Bill 98, The Better Schools and Student Outcomes Act: “Earlier today, despite strong opposition from education stakeholders, the Ontario...
Ontario’s Education Minister says the government is “prepared to invest” in front-line teachers in order to retain educators in provincial classrooms, after the government’s offer to a teacher’s union was revealed, exclusively, by Global News. Key...
A proposal by Ottawa’s largest school board that could see funding cut to a summer program for children with disabilities has parents reeling and ready to fight. The summer learning program at the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board (OCDSB) provides 17...
Ontario’s Progressive Conservative (PC) government has the power to value education by investing in their educators. We’ve known for quite some time that educators have the most significant influence on the outcomes of students. However, since...
QUEBEC – Quebec’s auditor general says more than one-quarter of teachers who worked in the province’s classrooms during the 2020-21 school year weren’t legally qualified. Guylaine Leclerc presented her annual report today, revealing that more...
As a strike among Halifax-area school support workers enters its third week, the union representing them says the province is dragging out the dispute by hiring non-union replacements. While Quebec and British Columbia have laws...
The Peel District School Board (PDSB) is investigating an anonymous letter that alleges out-of-control violence and “disorderly conduct” at a Mississauga middle school. The letter, making the rounds on social media, appears to be written...
In the summer of 2003 I moved with my family from Michigan to Hamilton. For me it was a homecoming. After 18 years away from my hometown, seven in the U.S., it seemed like the...
Virginia Mazzone-Ahou’s 10-year-old son Anthony spends one day a week at school and four days a week at a therapy centre in Durham, Ont., for children with autism. But come June, his funding is about to...