Quebec education

• Montreal families get creative as spring break activities sold out

  Many activities are fully sold out for the week, including the Biodome, with no spots available for the week and every weekend in March.

  Canada

  Mar 1
• PQ picks a fight with Dawson College over $100m campus project

  The school's plans for a new building are not an attempt to welcome even more students, administrators say, but an attempt to catch up to the number they already have.

  Politics

  Feb 9
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• Coronavirus: Air quality concerns among reasons for Quebec teachers’ strike votes

  Quebec teachers are threatening to go on strike. They say they are exhausted and working conditions have deteriorated since the beginning of the pandemic.

  Health

  Feb 1
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• Quebec Superior Court begins hearing final arguments in trial over at-home learning

  The legal action is asking for parents' ability to decide whether to physically send their children to school or not during the COVID-19 crisis.

  Health

  Jan 28
• Some Quebec parents worried provincial tutoring plan doesn’t include English services

  The English Parents' Committee Association is worried that English-speaking children won't benefit from Quebec's tutoring plan.

  Canada

  Jan 28
• Quebec unveils tutor recruitment platform to support students struggling amid pandemic

  The tutoring program, which was announced earlier this month, is meant to provide long-term support to Quebec students until June 2022.

  Education

  Jan 27
• Coronavirus: Quebec school boards scramble to set up recycling programs for disposable masks

  "Just roughly calculating 100 days till the end of June, we're looking at 2.1 million masks," said LBPSB assistant director general, Carol Heffernan.

  Environment

  Jan 22
• Coronavirus: Quebec to cover cost of recovering and recycling disposable masks from high schools

  The Quebec government is inviting high schools to collect the disposable medical masks being distributed to students so they don't end up in landfills.

  Education

  Jan 20
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• More Quebec families turn to homeschooling as children return to class

  As Quebec high schools reopen, more families have decided to homeschool instead of sending their children back.

  Canada

  Jan 18
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• Quebec’s anti-corruption police arrest third suspect in alleged school board fraud scheme

  Quebec's anti-corruption police have arrested a third suspect in connection with an alleged fraud scheme at the Lester B. Pearson School Board.

  Education

  Jan 13