Tag: London District Catholic school board
COVID-19 staff absences hitting home at London-area school boards
London-area school boards are grappling with a flood of staff absences as sixth wave case counts continue to rise, a situation so critical it forced two schools online Friday. The Thames Valley District school board says staffing issues forced it to shift from in-person to online learning at Sir Isaac Brock and Lambeth elementary schools. […]
Fanshawe, Western stand pat as school boards drop vaccine mandates
Two London-area school boards are following provincial guidance and dropping COVID-19 vaccination mandates for staff, but Western University and Fanshawe College aren’t letting theirs go yet. Ontario lifted mandatory vaccinate-or-test policies for workers in schools, child-care settings, hospitals and long-term care on March 14. Mandatory masking was lifted a week later by Kieran Moore, the […]
School board trustee acclaimed as Liberal candidate in Oxford
Provincial Liberals in Tory-held Oxford acclaimed Woodstock’s Mary Holmes Tuesday evening as their candidate in the soon-to-be called Ontario election.