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Province extends $10-a-day childcare to include non-school days
Previously, families with school-aged children paid $10 on school days, but on days where school was not in session, like in-services or holidays, they had to pay more than $20. But as of this week,…
What’s behind booming London Catholic school board’s budget deficit
The London region’s Catholic school board is planning for a nearly $900,000 deficit as it pays for portables and extra school buses to handle “extreme growth” in its student population. What’s behind booming London Catholic…
‘Stop the excuses’: Alberta Teachers’ Association president talks education funding and 2025 priorities
Well, there’s always room within the education system to test students who are struggling with reading and writing – but to blanket test every student in the system doesn’t make a lot of sense to…
Teachers lack resources to meet classroom needs, and absences shouldn’t surprise us
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted schooling on a global scale, challenging teachers with a flood of unmanageable demands. These demands have persisted, resulting in an echo-pandemic of educator absences and attrition — educators leaving their jobs — that threatens…
The “N” word – About that word, and about those books
Any serious high school student knows that even literature that entertains can land with a wallop. It exists to challenge. To ask hard questions. To provoke conversations. And to stir the reader’s moral compass Opinion:…
No legal authority for seclusion rooms used in N.B. schools, advocate says
“It’s time to stop normalizing breaking the law and time to have a proper debate over whether schools with seclusion rooms … is what we intended, when we talk about building a high-quality education system for…