With education sector collective agreements expired as of August 31, 2019, the union that represents over 55,000 education workers in Ontario’s public schools has asked its members for a strong mandate following some difficult bargaining...

The Ontario Federation of Labour has added a feature to its website that tracks the actions of the Ford government. The “Ford tracker” lists everything the Tories have done since they took power last summer....

Premier Doug Ford says he has spoken with “hundreds of teachers over the last few weeks” who are “so happy” with the province’s education cutbacks. As dozens of educators looked on from the spectators’ gallery...

Despite promises from the Ford government that no teachers would be laid off due to his cutbacks to education, local media outlets are reporting just that in communities across Ontario. The Upper Grand District School...

The Ford government’s education cutbacks will shrink the number of teachers and threaten “even the core curriculum required to graduate” at smaller rural schools,” says the Bluewater District School Board, which is located in Education...

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...