Thousands of public school elementary teachers will receive Bill 124 back pay, Global News has learned, after the union signed a tentative four-year agreement with the Ford government. Ontario’s elementary teachers to get Bill 124…
Ontario’s public elementary schools will add 401 specialist teachers to help the province’s youngest learners advance in their reading skills, according to a tentative agreement negotiated between the government, school boards and a teachers’ union….
The move follows that of public high school teachers, who have also signed on to a four-year deal. Ontario and elementary teachers reach tentative deal, averting strikes in public schools (thestar.com)
“This agreement brings us one step closer to ensuring there will be no province-wide job actions or strikes in all English-language public schools for the next three years,” he said. Ontario reaches tentative deal with…
The Waterloo Catholic District School Board has placed four books with 2SLGBTQIA+ themes into its ‘PRO section,’ which requires Catholic context in order to take them out for students below Grade 7 Advocacy group furious…
Throughout the month of November, tiny homes are sitting outside the front doors of five Waterloo Catholic District School Board high schools. Tiny homes in front of Waterloo Region high schools shedding light on homelessness…
“This is how homophobia works. It’s just plain and simple,” says Danny Ramadan, author of one of the targeted books A Catholic school board in Ontario is accused of shadow banning LGBTQ2S+ books | Xtra…
Selected to engage students in reading a diverse range of books, writer says these books have been ‘shadow-banned’ Books with LGBTQ themes restricted by school board (thestar.com)
People for Education survey finds smaller classes, more staff among resources leaders asking for Ontario high schools need more support for destreaming (thestar.com)
A network outage affecting students and staff for two days at York Region District School Board was the result of a cyber security “incident,” according to a board statement. Cyber security ‘incident’ at YRDSB (yorkregion.com)