Ontario has referred concerns about student financial assistance payments at private career colleges to the Ontario Provincial Police following an audit that identified what the […]
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Paris police chief calls for peaceful student protests
Paris police chief Patrice Faure is urging students in France to return to peaceful protests as demonstrations over education conditions grow increasingly violent. Police clashed […]
Ontario school board trustees spent $175K to strip Sir John A. Macdonald’s name from school
A Grade 10 student is questioning the Waterloo Region District School Board after learning it spent about $175,000 to rename a high school in Waterloo, […]
Toronto District School Board says close to 300 teaching positions to be eliminated this fall
Canada’s largest school board says it expects to cut just under 300 teaching jobs this fall, not more than 600 as a union has claimed. […]
Vice-principal in Cambridge charged in child pornography investigation
Waterloo Regional Police Service say they have arrested a 50-year-old man from Cambridge as part of an investigation into child sexual abuse and exploitation. Police […]
Ontario school board cites confidentiality rules to block release of records on $34K art collection
A London, Ont., school board is using a secrecy rule to avoid releasing details about a small public art collection it owns. Records obtained through […]
Ontario Unveils Actions Aimed at Improving Student Success
The Ontario government says it is creating a new advisory group to review how students are tested and supported in school. The decision comes after […]
Ontario hits pause on new medical school expansion after overlooking key warnings
Ontario’s auditor general says the Ford government did not plan properly when expanding the province’s medical schools, which has slowed down the creation of new […]
Ontario Moves to Assume Control of Northern School Board
A month after ordering a northern Ontario school board to fix what a report called serious dysfunction, the provincial government says it is taking control […]
Local Trustees Raise Alarm as Bill 33 Passes
Ontario’s controversial Bill 33, the Supporting Children and Students Act, became law on Thursday, raising new concerns from school board trustees who say it threatens […]