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...
More than 30,000 protesters, some from as far away as Dryden, packed the lawn at Queen’s Park April 6 in a massive show of solidarity in the face of the Ford government’s education cutbacks. The...
An estimated 100,000 students from more than 600 high schools walked out to protest the Ford government’s cuts to education on April 4. “We are showing them that students are informed, that students are angry,...
Premier Doug Ford and Education Minister Lisa Thompson blamed educators and their unions for the student walkout April 4 in an exchange with NDP Education Critic Marit Stiles during question period in the legislature. Thompson...
ETFO members, along with members and supporters from OSSTF, OECTA, CUPE, AEFO, the Ontario Federation of Labour and other unions, will gather at Queen’s Park in Toronto this Saturday to send a message to the...
School boards from Peel Region, Toronto and Hastings and Prince Edward have warned the Ford government’s education minister that increasing class sizes will affect student learning and safety. The Boards say the cutbacks mean schools...
