Stephen Lecce

• Energy minister plans to speed up new home connections to Ontario electricity grid

  Ontario's energy minister says he will introduce legislation to make it easier for new homes and businesses to connect to the electricity grid.

  Canada

  Oct 21
  
• Financial literacy test will be mandatory to get Ontario high school diploma: Lecce

  Ontario students will soon be required to pass a financial literacy test as part of a number of changes coming to the requirements needed to earn a high school diploma.

  Education

  May 30
  
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• New way of funding $10-a-day child care in Ontario coming in 2025

  Ontario has told child-care centres that it will implement a new way of funding the national $10-a-day program — something operators have urgently called for — starting in 2025.

  Canada

  May 16
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• Two new elementary schools to be built in London, Ont.

  The Ministry of Education has approved $55.3 million for the Thames Valley District School Board to build two new elementary schools in west and southeast London. 

  Canada

  Apr 30
• ‘Indefensible’: Stephen Lecce rips WRDSB move to close schools for eclipse

  Education Minister Stephen Lecce says that the Waterloo Region District School Board should reconsider its move to close its schools on Monday due to the solar eclipse.

  Education

  Apr 5
• Ontario may see non-tech teachers in new mandatory tech ed classes

  Ontario is proposing to allow teachers without technological credentials to teach certain mandatory tech courses for the next school year.

  Education

  Apr 1
• Ontario preparing ‘back to basics’ curriculum for kindergarten

  Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce says new curriculum plans will ensure students have strong reading, writing and math skills when they enter Grade 1.

  Education

  Jan 23
• Ontario court upholds mandatory math test for new teachers

  Ontario's top court has upheld the validity of a mandatory math test for new teachers, saying that a lower court decision calling it unconstitutional was based on incomplete data.

  Education

  Nov 28, 2023
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• Ontario boosting ECE wages to $23.86 an hour next year in bid to ease shortage

  Ontario is boosting the minimum wage of early childhood educators in most licensed child-care centres to $23.86 an hour next year – up from a planned increase to $20.

  Education

  Nov 16, 2023
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• Ontario English Catholic teachers vote to hand union strike mandate

  English Catholic teachers in Ontario are the second group in as many days to hand their union a strike mandate to use in ongoing talks with the Ford government.

  Education

  Oct 19, 2023