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• Peterborough-area school boards preparing for virtual learning amid provincewide school shutdown

  Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board and Peterborough Victoria Northumberland and Clarington Catholic District School Board are providing technology for remote learning.

  Education

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• Education experts warn of COVID-19 pandemic driven ‘crisis’ for students

  ``The real wave will be that in two, three years we'll wake up and we'll see that we have more social inequality, illiteracy and other things that we then need to fix.''

  Health

  Mar 22
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• Group calls for free menstrual products in all publicly funded Ontario schools in open letter

  A group including all four of Ontario's main teachers unions is urging the provincial government to offer free menstrual products in all publicly funded schools.

  Canada

  Mar 8
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• Coronavirus: More Ontario schools reopen to in-person learning

  But in three COVID-19 hot spots -- Toronto, Peel and York Region -- schools will remain closed until Feb. 16.

  Education

  Feb 8
• Ontario school reopening announcement coming Wednesday, education minister says

  Stephen Lecce said Ontario's chief medical officer of health will provide final school-reopening advice later this week, after which the province will make an announcement.

  Education

  Feb 1
• Schools reopen in 7 public health units across southern Ontario

  Education Minister Stephen Lecce says that means 100,000 students will be returning to the classroom for the first time since before the winter break.

  Education

  Jan 25
• Toronto’s SickKids hospital report urges more masking, distancing for schools planning to reopen

  Experts at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children say schools need to ramp up COVID-19 testing and masking in order to have all kids return to the classroom as soon as possible.

  Education

  Jan 21
• Northern Ontario schools reopen in-person learning as southern students stay home

  Students in southern Ontario will continue attending classes remotely until at least Jan. 25.

  Education

  Jan 11
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• Coronavirus: Most Ontario elementary students will continue online learning until Jan. 25

  "Returning students to school now with community transmission and positivity rates so high risks losing the hard-fought progress made in keeping schools and students safe."

  Education

  Jan 7
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• Students return to virtual school as part of Ontario coronavirus lockdown measures

  The measure ends for all students in northern Ontario and elementary students in southern Ontario after the first week back from winter break.

  Education

  Jan 4