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The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board is proposing to balance its budget for the coming fiscal year, but getting into the black will mean cuts. A draft budget for 2023-24 tabled this week finds $19 million in savings, including cuts to what are described as “discretionary” education positions. The president of …
Read More »Bill 124 retroactive pay costs Ontario government nearly $1B
Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Ford government has been forced to give health-care workers nearly a billion dollars in back pay after a court struck down the province’s controversial wage suppression legislation. The 2019 law, known as Bill 124, capped wage increases for nurses and other public …
Read More »Mother’s Day controversy in Quebec after teachers celebrate parents
The controversial decision by teachers at a Quebec school to replace Mother’s Day events with a celebration of parents has caused ripples all the way to the provincial legislature, but supporters say such moves can benefit children. The school service centre that oversees La Chanterelle school in Quebec City said …
Read More »Ontario education minister wants teachers to accept private mediation
Ontario’s education minister said Monday he has called on teachers’ unions to accept private mediation in order to ensure contracts are in place before the start of the new school year, but two unions say it’s too early for that and two others say they weren’t actually asked. Stephen Lecce …
Read More »Long road to recovery for students and teachers returning to campus in Lethbridge
When the University of Lethbridge announced the shutdown of campuses in early 2020, professors and students were anxious, left with only days to figure out how to carry on with courses in an online format. This fall, many colleges and universities have decided to have fully in-person courses. The University …
Read More »Some teachers are using TikTok to reach teens, but concern over app’s effects persists
When Shauna Pomerantz saw her daughter’s smartphone use rocket up during the pandemic, she investigated and discovered the reason: TikTok videos. Her next step? Pomerantz, a professor of child and youth studies at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ont., dug into the world of TikTok alongside her teen. Besides picking up some …
Read More »Lower diploma exam weighting brings student relief, but could affect motivation, teachers say
Keelin Clarke was relieved and ecstatic when they saw a text message from a friend on Monday saying the weighting of diploma exams was dropping. Clarke has three diploma exams to write this school year — math first, then social studies and English next semester. The Grade 12 student at Victoria School of …
Read More »Some parents, teachers want stricter guidelines around COVID in schools this fall
As thousands of children across British Columbia return to school in a few days, some parents and teachers say they want to make sure minimizing COVID-19 risk is still a priority. Although the Omicron BA.5 wave peaked in early August according to the the B.C. COVID-19 modelling group, many British Columbians are set to get their fourth dose …
Read More »Adding the names of deceased teachers to Alberta’s new registry is unnecessary and hurtful, families say
Sel Healy says she was appalled when the Alberta government sent her husband a letter in June saying he’d be included in a new public teacher registry set to go live in September. That’s because Michael “Joe” Healy, a long-time math and science teacher at Calgary’s Bishop Carroll High School, …
Read More »Schoolytics is a dashboard that keeps teachers, students, and parents on the same page – TechCrunch
When I was in school — which, judging by how my spine feels most mornings, was fourteen thousand years ago — keeping track of how you were doing on your homework felt, itself, like homework. Parents, meanwhile, were generally in the dark about your overall progress until report cards came …
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