Stephen Lecce

• ‘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
  
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• 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
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• 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
• 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
• 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
• Lecce says Ontario high school teachers deal includes Bill 124 wages ‘resolution’

  'Through this proposal, which includes negotiating for the next month and sending any outstanding issues to interest arbitration, this frame includes the resolution for 124.'

  Education

  Sep 28, 2023
• Ontario education minister asks school board to halt library book removal process

  The move comes after critics say Peel school libraries have been removing books simply because they were published before 2008, based on board guidelines. 

  Education

  Sep 13, 2023
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• Ministry of Education to audit finances at Toronto-area school board

  The York Catholic District School Board approved a budget over the summer with a $12-million deficit. During a tense meeting in May, its chair asked the province to probe spending.

  Education

  Sep 2, 2023
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• ‘Lay a solid foundation’: Back-to-school preparations underway in London, Ont.

  Mark Fisher, TVDSB director of education, said that one of the board's focuses for this year is building relationships between students and staff.

  Education

  Aug 29, 2023