Class Size And Composition

• Teacher job action still a possibility as Saskatchewan education minister offers more resources

  Saskatchewan's education minister has offered more resources to address teacher concerns, but not all the details are known at this point.

  Politics

  Mar 5, 2020
  
• STF, education minister feel confident after post-job action vote meeting

  Both the Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation president and provincial education minister are feeling optimistic about talks, one day after teachers voted in favour of job action.

  Education

  Feb 25, 2020
  
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• Saskatchewan teachers voting whether to take job action

  The union president expects the votes will be counted by the end of the month and said he intends to discuss the results with the education minister to see if a deal can be struck.

  Canada

  Feb 11, 2020
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• Education Ministry creates task force to help keep B.C. classrooms fully staffed

  B.C.'s education minister said the task force will deal with pressing issues as they come up, but will have a list of final recommendations by the end of the year.

  Oct 24, 2017
• BCTF says province’s classrooms short 1,000 teachers

  The province is still 300 full time and 700 on-call teachers, according to the union.

  Oct 3, 2017
• Vancouver School Board to get $22M less in class size and composition money than expected

  The Vancouver School District says it is getting about $22-million less than it was promised to hire new teachers and bring down class sizes.

  Education

  Jun 28, 2017
• Greater Victoria Teachers’ Association suggests opening closed schools to avoid portables

  The Greater Victoria Teachers’ Association wants the Victoria School District to open closed schools to stop students from having to use portables.

  Education

  Jun 20, 2017