Toward the end of the school day on Wednesday, Alicia O’Callaghan received a call from Lockview Elementary School to pick up her daughter. She was told that her kindergartener wasn’t acting like herself. Immediately, the...
TORONTO, June 20, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Ahead of the Toronto District School Board’s final budget meeting on Wednesday afternoon, concerned Ontarians issued a rallying cry to Premier Ford: Stop the Cuts and Fund Our...
The local president of the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario is applauding the public school board for its recent decision to keep special education staff despite a funding shortfall. The Greater Essex County District School...
The Lambton Kent District School Board (LKDSB) and the Occasional Teachers of the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario have ratified a collective agreement. The announcement was made on Wednesday after a tentative deal was reached in May....
In December 2023, teacher and occasional teacher (OT) members of the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) ratified a central agreement that included the referral of compensation (salary and daily OT rate) to binding arbitration;...
Ontario’s English public elementary and high school teachers will receive nearly 12 per cent in wage increases over a four-year contract, an arbitrator ruled on Wednesday. The province reached deals on new contracts with all its...
Local teachers’ unions are raising the alarm on violence in classrooms. Together in Education (TIE), a group representing education workers from the Catholic and public school boards of Waterloo region, held a press conference Thursday...
A group representing educators in Waterloo Region gathered last week to discuss the results of a survey on classroom violence. It asked the region’s teachers and education assistants about their experiences, and the findings are...
The quotes from the education workers recounting violence in schools send shivers down Colleen Dietrich Sisson’s spine. “I thought I knew everything that was happening, and I have to be honest, I was brought to...
