Premier Doug Ford and Education Minister Lisa Thompson alarmed teachers and parents by refusing to commit to the continuation of full-day kindergarten beyond the 2019–2020 school year. But the program has shown its worth, the...
Provincial cuts to funding for therapy for autistic children are “a tsunami headed for the school system,” says Laura Kirby-McIntosh, president of the Ontario Autism Coalition. Parents say cuts to publicly funded autism therapy will...
Ontario Premier Doug Ford must have failed kindergarten and Ontario needs to teach him a lesson about “the consequences of dismantling one of the most important programs in the lives of its children.” That’s the...
The CEO of a Toronto co-working space that provides on-site childcare says full-day kindergarten is essential to working women and eliminating it would hurt the province’s economy. In an opinion piece in The Globe and...
The message couldn’t be clearer. Over 78,000 Ontarians have sent letters to their MPPs in the last two weeks saying that they do not support larger class sizes in public elementary schools as part of...
The former Assistant Deputy Minister of Education who implemented full-day kindergarten in Ontario says the Ontario government should think twice about axing the program. Studies show the return on investment in full-day kindergarten is between...
British Columbia’s experiment with increasing class sizes “harmed student learning, cost the government political support, and did not end up saving much (if any) money in the long run,” says a Canada Graduate Scholar in...
An Ontario human rights tribunal has heard that senior staff warned Education Minister Lisa Thompson that the new sex-education curriculum imposed by the Conservative government would be regarded as “outdated” and “not serving the needs...
Nova Scotia’s government is on a collision course with the province’s teachers over its demand to make teachers’ pensions an issue during upcoming contract talks, reports CTV News Atlantic. Pensions are usually negotiated separately from...
Premier Doug Ford has hinted at cutting the popular full-day kindergarten program after the 2019-20 school year. “As far as I’m concerned, there’s [sic] a lot of areas of education that are broken that need...
