TORONTO – The Ontario government is asking the province’s Education Relations Commission for advice on whether an ongoing strike by high school teachers is placing the school year at risk.
High school teachers in the Toronto-area regions of Peel, Durham and the Sudbury-area Rainbow District are on strikes that have kept more than 70,000 students from class for weeks.
Education Minister Liz Sandals – who has not yet said if the province is considering back-to-work legislation – says the government is concerned the strike could put the school year in those boards in jeopardy.
Meanwhile, high school teachers in Ottawa and Halton Region will begin an administrative strike May 21.
The Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation says the local unions for the Ottawa-Carleton and Halton boards will partially withdraw services, which means teachers won’t add comments to report cards or attend staff meetings or school board meetings, and will hold some picket lines over the lunch hour.
Regular school operations will continue, as will field trips and extracurricular activities.
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