Understanding Secondary Class Sizes
YouTube video in regards to the impact of 28:1 in Secondary Schools
What *Exactly* is Happening To Ontario’s Education System?
More than 100,000 students participated in a province-wide walkout on April 4, and on April 6, around 10,000 teachers, students and parents showed up to protest at Queen’s Park. They were all rallying against Premier Doug Ford and Education Minister Lisa…
Waterloo Region schools lose $125 per student as funding falls one per cent
WATERLOO REGION — Local schools have been given $3 million more by the provincial government but will have 1,200 more students to teach. This works out to a reduction of one per cent in basic operational funding…
Ontario high school teachers union files notice to bargain with Ford government
The union representing Ontario’s public high school teachers has sent a formal notice to begin bargaining, a procedural move that kick-starts what is expected to be a tough round of negotiations. The Ontario Secondary School…
Education minister won’t say whether loss of full-time teacher status counts as job loss
Hundreds of GTA teachers received layoff notices this week, and are being warned they may lose their full-time status. Ontario’s Education Minister Lisa Thompson did not answer when asked repeatedly whether she considers the change…
Doug Ford’s teacher layoffs will hurt education in Ontario
Peel school board warns of teacher layoffs, April 17 Demoralizing and threatening teachers does nothing to enhance the educational experience of students in Ontario. Laying off teachers has a larger implication for future enrollments for…
Case of trans girl fighting Ontario’s sex-ed curriculum repeal dismissed
TORONTO — The Ontario government’s decision to repeal a modernized sex-ed curriculum does not violate a transgender girl’s rights, the province’s human rights tribunal decided Thursday. The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario dismissed the argument…
Peel’s educational support workers protest Ford government’s ‘radical cuts’ to education
Educational support workers from the Peel District School Board and Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board, gathered outside Mississauga-Erin Mills MPP Sheref Sabawy’s constituency office on Friday (April 12) to protest Premier Doug Ford’s proposed cuts…
Ford government cutting $1B from social services over 3 years
Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives are slashing roughly $1 billion from the Ministry for Children, Community and Social Services over the next three years, according to the provincial budget, but have provided few details about where the…
Open letter to MPPs in Peel Region regarding the student walkouts
My name is Mike Bettiol, and I am the president of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation in Peel. I represent about 3,500 education workers, about 3,200 of which are teachers and occasional teachers. You…