Ontario’s Catholic and French teachers have ratified contracts with the provincial government. The results of the votes, announced Wednesday, means all of the province’s teachers’ unions have now inked deals with the Ford government. Members of the...

TORONTO, ON – The Ford government has failed Ontario’s students once again by shamefully refusing to allocate new funding to adequately support a high-quality public education system. The following is a statement from the Elementary...

As Ontario’s public schools struggle with staffing, over a quarter of schools report being unable to fully staff teachers each day, while nearly half are dealing with daily shortages of educational assistants, according to a...

Ontario will have to pay out more than $6 billion to broader public sector workers after the provincial government’s wage restraint legislation was found to be unconstitutional, according to a report in the Canadian Press....

The Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO), Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Association (OECTA), and Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation (OSSTF/FEESO) issued the following statement today in support of the decision by the Ontario Teachers’ Federation...

Amid strained contract negotiations between the Saskatchewan government and the province’s teachers, along with rotating strikes and other labour action since January, a phrase from education circles has surfaced among the general public: classroom complexity. It speaks to a...

Media outlets and educational commentators across Ontario have expressed concerns regarding the issue of a “teacher shortage.” Allegedly, this shortage is negatively impacting day-to-day work in Ontario public schools. However, when one considers the data,...

Grand Erie District School Board is pleased to announce that it has reached agreements with two local ETFO labour unions, concluding all of Grand Erie’s educator union agreements. These agreements were ratified by the Board...

York Region District School Board has ratified a new four-year collective agreement with the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario Occasional Teachers, York Region, representing about 2,500 teachers at the board.

For Gurpreet Kaur Bains, two words describe the teacher shortage plaguing Canadian schools: “chaotic and stressful.” “We are always short teachers, and it’s a hard time filling out certain positions,” the learning support teacher told The Current’s Matt Galloway. “Personally,...