The Ontario government wants more power over school boards’ academic priorities and better training for senior leaders, and is also proposing it play a larger role in the selling off of surplus school properties. Ford…
New education bill puts focus on ‘back-to-basics,’ gives minister more power over school boards Doug Ford government sets sights on Ontario’s school system | CBC News
A parent group is calling for the resignation of a first-term Waterloo Catholic school board trustee because of a Twitter post calling “the white Christian male” the world’s biggest threat. Parents demand Waterloo Catholic trustee’s…
Critics say the $180 million promised would be better spent on early childhood educators or education assistants. Ontario to add 1,000 teaching positions to help with reading, math | The Star
There are still many details that remain to be discovered regarding the troubling allegations against the: principal, vice-principal and teacher that locked a six-year-old Black boy in a school closet. Ontario Principals’ Council is not…
School closures related to labour disputes and the pandemic prompted some commentators to call for charter schools. Adding charter schools to Ontario would exacerbate student inequities (theconversation.com)
It turns out, we started allowing this kind of support to slip even before the pandemic, writes Mike Farwell A chance to dance: When it comes to prom, Waterloo Region Catholic schools should be doing…
Based on recommendations tabled in the Ontario Human Rights Commission ‘Right to Read‘ report, the Northeastern Catholic District School Board (NCDSB) asked its staff in September to change how it teaches reading and writing. Timmins news: NCDSB implements changes based…
Less than 10 per cent of the children in Toronto are Black, yet more than half the kids in the care of the Catholic Children’s Aid Society of Toronto are Black. Priscilla Manful is determined…
Students call on York Catholic District School Board to fly the Progress Pride Flag during June’s Pride Month; it’s one of the few Catholic boards not to do so Statements on inclusion aren’t enough: YCDSB…