Catholic high school and elementary teachers will soon have to pay for parking, as the school board grapples with a $32.8 million funding shortfall. The Toronto Catholic District School Board approved the new parking fees at a special budgetary meeting Tuesday night — charging full-time teachers...
In what appears to be precedent-setting, Toronto’s Catholic board plans to charge teachers $10 a day for parking in the school lot — a “ridiculous” move that amounts to a “salary clawback,” say educators who feel the board is balancing the budget on their backs. Trustees...
School boards across northwestern Ontario agree on one thing: the upcoming school year will have fewer staff on the payroll. How the payroll changes though, will be different for each school board, with some keeping teachers in the classroom at all costs, while others will have...
Ontario’s high school teachers say pre-bargaining talks have gotten off to a rough start, with the two sides already at an impasse over what should be negotiated provincially and what can be left to individual boards. In a memo sent to members Friday, the Ontario Secondary...
Ontario’s high-school teachers’ union is warning that its initial discussions with the government to reach a new contract have hit a snag. In a memo to members on Friday, the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation (OSSTF) said the government and the school boards’ association want more...
Union members protested the provincial government’s cuts to education in front of local MPP Steve Clark’s office this week. Hoisting signs proclaiming that “class size matters” and “cuts hurt children,” the 50 protesters from five education unions peacefully paraded in front of Clark’s Brockville constituency office...
On May 16, Brampton Centre MPP Sara Singh asked Education Minister Lisa Thompson to address the Peel District School Board (PDSB) trustees’ open letter on the cancellation of secondary courses. During question period of legislation Singh restated the PDSB board of trustees’ concerns on the impact...
On average, each Ontario student is going to be worth 0.44 per cent less in terms of funding beginning this September. The province has released its funding to school boards for 2019-20 and the amount per pupil has gone down slightly, from $12,300 this year to...
As a part of reforms to the education system, the Provincial government raised the limit on class sizes from 22 to 28, meaning that less teachers will be teaching more students. Dale Fobert, a teacher of 27 years and President of the Eastern Ontario district of...
The battle between the Ontario government and the teachers' unions will extend beyond teacher layoffs says Glen Hodgson, president of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation District 4. To start, it will harm young teachers trying to get their first job. Some wait years on a supply...