The PCs continued to defend the controversial provision. ...
Category: Education and Training
Watchdog pegs Ontario’s infrastructure backlog at $16.8B, schools alone at $3.7B
The school repair backlog has previously been pegged at $16 billion based on a different accounting method. ...
Post-secondary institutions to shift to performance-based funding in 2022
Stakeholders have said the move is unfair and based mainly on factors outside schools' control. ...
Higher education performance-based funding announcement coming this week: Romano
One stakeholder called it a "reckless approach" to higher education. ...
Premier U-turns on COVID framework’s thresholds as experts warn about the inevitability of a lockdown
The premier said Ontario is "staring down the barrel of a lockdown," but he didn't implement one. ...
Former premier appears as delegate at Toronto Catholic school board meeting, urging sanction of trustee
The trustee had compared LGBTQ issues with bestiality, zoophilia, pedophilia and cannibalism. ...
‘My heart’s a bit broken for everyone,’ Ottawa student trustee says of pandemic learning
The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board has shared the results of its return to school survey. ...
Elementary teachers’ union files labour board complaint after government scraps seniority hiring rule
ETFO says "Regulation 274 cannot be revoked at this time" because local bargaining is still happening. ...
Concerned parents launch online survey on school reopening as premier touts ‘best plan in the country’
The Ontario Parent Action Network said it will hand over the results of its survey to the Ford government. ...
TDSB expresses ‘significant concerns’ about impacts and costs of COVID-19 in pre-budget consultation
Several education sector stakeholders have submitted their asks as part of the government's consultation. ...