Ontario Schools Coronavirus

• Waterloo public school board extends opt-out deadline

  The Waterloo Region District School Board has given parents an extra two days to indicate whether they will be sending their kids back to school or not.

  Education

  Aug 7, 2020
  
• Estate planning company offers Ontario education workers free wills ahead of September

  “Where I teach, my classroom is in a wing of a school that was built in the 60s. It's recycled air. I have great big windows but they don’t open, some of the people in my section don’t even have windows at all and I’ve had respiratory issues.”

  Education

  Aug 5, 2020
  
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• Toronto’s SickKids Hospital provides updated list of recommendations on how to reopen schools

  Among the key recommendations from doctors at Toronto's SickKids hospital and other health officials from across the province is that high-school and middle-school students wear masks when distance can't be maintained, however younger children aren't expected to wear them.

  Education

  Jul 29, 2020
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• Initials plans for back to school released by Waterloo school board

  Waterloo Region District School Board trustees received an initial look at what school may look like in the area this fall on Tuesday night.

  Canada

  Jul 28, 2020
• Ontario boards eye partial back to school plan that worries working parents

  "What am I going to do without some kind of a consistent model of school?"

  Education

  Jul 5, 2020
• Ontario government cancels EQAO testing due to coronavirus outbreak

  Ontario's education minister says EQAO, the province's standardized testing, is cancelled for the 2019-20 school year amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.

  Education

  Mar 18, 2020
• MPs to discuss suspending Parliament amid coronavirus pandemic

  The Commons is sitting today before a planned one-week break, but discussions are underway about whether that break should be extended.

  Canada

  Mar 13, 2020
• Coronavirus: All publicly funded schools in Ontario closing for 2 weeks due to COVID-19

  "The minister of education has issued a ministerial order to close all publicly funded schools in Ontario for two weeks following March break in response to the emergence in Ontario of COVID-19."

  Health

  Mar 12, 2020