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Changes for the 2026-2027 school year include mandatory final exams, attendance grading, a financial literacy graduation requirement, new student and family support offices, and a revised kindergarten ...
News Canada » Ontario » Education: Ontario making record investments in education as students return to school
The Ontario government says it is making record investments in publicly funded education as students and teachers return to school for the 2026-27 year. Students and teachers are returning to updated ...
News Canada » Ontario » Education: Ontario education minister considering social media ban for under 16s
Ontario's education minister is considering a total, province-wide prohibition on cellphones in elementary and high schools, along with a potential social media ban for children under the age of 16 -- ...
News Canada » Ontario » Education: Ontario’s new school supplies portal for teachers may have pricing 'mistakes,' says education minister
Ontario’s education minister Paul Calandra said a new provincial portal for Ontario teachers that launched on Tuesday is the cheapest place for teachers to buy essential supplies, but said there may ...
News Canada » Ontario » Education: Education minister open to eliminating Ontario school trustees
Ontario's education minister says the way schools are governed in the province is "outdated" and that, as he pursues a review, he's open to eliminating elected trustees altogether. Already, Paul ...
News Canada » Ontario » Education: Ontario education unions work to block teachers’ struggle despite massive strike votes
The members of two of the four Ontario teacher unions that represent some 200,000 educators in Canada’s most populace province voted overwhelmingly to strike last month. As has been the case ...
News Canada » Ontario » Education: Ontario education strike fallout: Workers’ anger about economic inequalities and labour precarity could spark wider job action
Labour strife in Canada grabbed international attention after the Ontario government passed a law that made an education workers’ strike illegal and set fines for striking workers, invoking a clause ...
News Canada » Ontario » Education: Ontario education workers to give update on mediation
TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CUPE’s Ontario School Boards Council of Unions (OSBCU) will give an update about frontline education workers’ bargaining for student success and good jobs on their third day ...