Tag: Ontario Ministry of Education
Grey and Bruce County leaders push for child care and rural funding at AMO
Grey County Deputy Warden Brian Milne said it’s like political speed dating. “That’s what it feels like.” Elected officials and staff from Grey and Bruce counties recently travelled to the annual Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) Conference in Ottawa, which ran from Aug.16 to 19. It’s a chance for local officials to meet with […]
Timmons: What’s changing, what isn’t in Ontario kindergarten classes
The revised Ontario kindergarten curriculum is an update to the 2016 program, not a replacement of its foundational approach
Ontario’s attendance policy: Can students miss school for extracurriculars?
What’s changing as Ontario rolls out its new attendance grading policy this fall.
Catholic trustees adamant in budget battle to save librarian jobs
Board rejects $421-million spending plan again, but provincial rules mean proposed librarian cuts are still likely to proceed.
Amid protest, Catholic school trustees reject budget that would cut library jobs
Trustees with the London District Catholic school board have rejected a budget that proposed cutting nearly two dozen positions, including 19 elementary school librarians. At a meeting Monday, all eight of the board’s elected trustees said they couldn’t endorse a balanced budget until the board’s top administrator, Vince Romeo, and his colleagues come up with […]