As the largest and fastest-growing school district in British Columbia, Surrey’s boom is straining its schools, pushing it to try unconventional options to accommodate the surge. Clusters of portable classrooms have become a familiar sight. Some schools have rejected in-catchment students for lack of...

The Ford government is launching a new transparency tool it says will shine a light on how school boards are spending government dollars. Union leaders say this will do nothing to address chronic underfunding of...

Education funding in Ontario has been a bit of a shell game for some time. Back in 2019, the government announced that the average class size in secondary schools was going to increase from 22...

The following is a statement from the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) responding to today’s provincial government announcement that includes revisions to Policy/Program Memorandum (PPM) 128 – The  Provincial Code of Conduct and School...

The following is a statement from the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) responding to the government’s announcement on education funding for 2024-2025: “While the Ford government has repeatedly claimed that they are committed to...

Action on Violence in Schools  Presently, there are two pieces of federal legislation moving through the House of Commons (Bill C-273) and the Senate (Bill S-251) that repeal Section 43 of the Criminal Code of Canada, which...

Ontario’s Catholic and French teachers have ratified contracts with the provincial government. The results of the votes, announced Wednesday, means all of the province’s teachers’ unions have now inked deals with the Ford government. Members of the...

TORONTO, ON – The Ford government has failed Ontario’s students once again by shamefully refusing to allocate new funding to adequately support a high-quality public education system. The following is a statement from the Elementary...

As Ontario’s public schools struggle with staffing, over a quarter of schools report being unable to fully staff teachers each day, while nearly half are dealing with daily shortages of educational assistants, according to a...

Ontario will have to pay out more than $6 billion to broader public sector workers after the provincial government’s wage restraint legislation was found to be unconstitutional, according to a report in the Canadian Press....