Stephen Lecce
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Energy minister plans to speed up new home connections to Ontario electricity gridOntario's energy minister says he will introduce legislation to make it easier for new homes and businesses to connect to the electricity grid.CanadaOct 21, 2024
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Financial literacy test will be mandatory to get Ontario high school diploma: LecceOntario 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.EducationMay 30, 2024
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New way of funding $10-a-day child care in Ontario coming in 2025Ontario 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.CanadaMay 16, 2024
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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.CanadaApr 30, 2024
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‘Indefensible’: Stephen Lecce rips WRDSB move to close schools for eclipseEducation 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.EducationApr 5, 2024
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Ontario may see non-tech teachers in new mandatory tech ed classesOntario is proposing to allow teachers without technological credentials to teach certain mandatory tech courses for the next school year.EducationApr 1, 2024
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Ontario preparing ‘back to basics’ curriculum for kindergartenOntario Education Minister Stephen Lecce says new curriculum plans will ensure students have strong reading, writing and math skills when they enter Grade 1.EducationJan 23, 2024
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Ontario court upholds mandatory math test for new teachersOntario'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.EducationNov 28, 2023
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Ontario boosting ECE wages to $23.86 an hour next year in bid to ease shortageOntario 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.EducationNov 16, 2023
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Ontario English Catholic teachers vote to hand union strike mandateEnglish 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.EducationOct 19, 2023
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