The Peel District School Board (PDSB) is raising the alarm about huge changes proposed for the education system in Ontario. PDSB trustees recently sent a letter to Lisa Thompson, the Minister of Education, to share their concerns regarding recent announcements about major changes to the education system in...
Student mental health is a huge concern for school guidance counsellors — who these days help kids with everything from stress to substance abuse and have even become the go-to person for families looking to find counselling. A survey by the Ontario School Counsellors' Association, to...
More than 135 local teachers could lose their jobs under the province’s plan to increase secondary school class sizes. Larger class sizes and mandatory online courses for high school students are among the many education changes announced by the Ontario government. The average class size for high...
The recent Ford government education policy announcement, concerning major changes in class size and mandatory online credits for high school students, has me reminiscing about a series of popular SNL episodes that ran from the mid-'70s to early '80s. The comedy series featured Mr. Bill, a...
TORONTO, March 25, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The OFL launched its Power of Many campaign of resistance to the Ontario government’s pro-business agenda of cuts and privatization today. Union members and community activists from all sectors and all parts of Ontario gathered to take action at...
The heads of the Sault and Algoma region’s two English language school boards have offered their responses to the provincial government’s upcoming changes to classroom sizes and how some courses will be taught within the classroom. In a list of changes announced March 15, the government...
The Ontario government’s plan to increase high-school class sizes will result in the loss of thousands of education positions, says the head of the secondary school teachers’ union which has vowed to fight the changes. Speaking at a press conference on Thursday, Harvey Bischof, the president...
The new Education that Works for You vision released by Ontario Minister of Education Lisa Thompson recently includes increasing student and parent exposure to skilled trades and promoting the trades through education. “Ontario students have experienced significant success through Specialist High Skills Majors and Dual Credit...
Premier Doug Ford is warning teachers’ unions against taking any action to protest his government’s move to increase class sizes to save money. “If the head of the unions want to hurt the children of this province by doing walkouts and everything else, I’d think twice if I...
Hundreds of teachers across Windsor-Essex and Chatham-Kent are taking part in a silent protest of proposed changes to Ontario classrooms. The Progressive Conservative government last week announced plans to eliminate the cap on class sizes while reducing the province's $29-billion education budget by one per cent. The...