Ontario Education Cuts

• London high school teachers hold information pickets amid 1-day strike

  The pickets aimed to shed light on issues facing the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation at the bargaining table as contract talks with the government remain stalled.

  Education

  Dec 11, 2019
  
• Tentative deal reached between province, Educational Workers’ Alliance of Ontario

  Education Minister Stephen Lecce is expected to officially announce the deal on Tuesday afternoon at Queen's Park.

  Politics

  Dec 10, 2019
  
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• Ontario Catholic school teachers’ union to vote on provincewide strike in November

  The Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association joins the unions representing both elementary and secondary teachers in making such a move.

  Education

  Oct 21, 2019
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• York police urge parents to phone schools for absent kids after potential strike averted

  York Regional Police are asking parents who kept their children home from class in anticipation of an education workers' strike to call their schools and let them know.

  Canada

  Oct 7, 2019
• How school boards will tell you if classes are cancelled Monday

  Global News has reached out to a number of boards that are planning to shut down classes Monday should a strike happen, and gathered their responses.

  Education

  Oct 6, 2019
• Liberal MP Adam Vaughan deletes tweet, apologizes after linking Ford cuts with kids in cages

  Liberal MP Adam Vaughan falsely accused a provincial conservative cabinet minister of blaming education funding cuts on refugee children.

  Politics

  Aug 15, 2019
• American private-education lobbying group sets up shop in Ontario

  "[TeachON] will follow a similar model to the broader Teach Coalition, working with MPPs to secure proper funding for independent school," the organization said in a release.

  Education

  Aug 7, 2019
• 67 public school teachers served redundancy notices in Kingston this year

  Kingston's public school board handed out additional redundancy notices to prepare for larger class sizes.

  Education

  May 24, 2019
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• TDSB projects $28.7M shortfall due to provincial cuts

  The Progressive Conservative government announced cuts to education funding last month.

  Canada

  Apr 11, 2019
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• Out-of-work Ontario teachers ‘more than welcome’ in B.C.: education minister

  "Obviously, we’re going in a vastly different direction than Ontario is — we’re reducing class sizes here,” said B.C. Education Minister Rob Fleming.

  Education

  Apr 8, 2019