Trustees with the Waterloo Region District School Board have passed the budget for the 2023-24 school year.
But in doing so, they were “forced to make some very difficult decisions regarding staffing and resources,” chairperson Joanne Weston wrote in a letter to Ontario’s Minister of Education Stephen Lecce.
The board’s letter, dated June 27 and which has also been published on the school board’s website, has asked Lecce to review how school boards are currently being funded and “address some of the critical gaps” the board is facing.
Among the top concerns is transportation, Weston said in an interview with…
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Saskatchewan suspends Planned Parenthood from school presentations
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Published June 22, 2023 • Last updated 1 day ago • 3 minute read
Education Minister Dustin Duncan speaks at the Legislative Building on Thursday, March 9, 2023 in Regina. TROY FLEECE / Regina Leader-Post Photo by TROY FLEECE /Regina Leader-Post
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Regina’s Planned Parenthood says it’s sorry that a non-approved resource wound up in the hands of a Lumsden High School student, however, the organization is disappointed in how the Ministry of Education is handling the matter.
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No more A, B or C: Public schools in BC moving from letter grades to ‘proficiency scale’
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Posted June 23, 2023 4:28 pm
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All students from kindergarten to Grade 9 in British Columbia public schools will now be assessed with a proficiency scale instead of letter grades.
A statement from the Education Ministry says that starting in the 2023-24 school year, only students in Grades 10, 11 and 12 will receive letter grades and percentages so post-secondary entry requirements are met.
About half of BC’s students have already been getting the new progress reports in a pilot program through a curriculum modernization plan that…
Teachers get summers off. Teachers college students? Not at Western U
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Western University’s faculty of education is speeding up and modifying the process to become a certified teacher amid what officials are calling a critical shortage in classrooms provincewide.
Published June 12, 2023 • Last updated 1 week ago • 2 minute read
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Western University’s faculty of education is speeding up and modifying the process to become a certified teacher amid what officials are calling a critical shortage in classrooms provincewide.
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Teachers, students, parents rallied in Regina for an increase in public education funding
The Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation estimates about 3,500 people gathered at the Saskatchewan Legislative Building on Saturday for a rally organized by the Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation, calling for more public education money amid rising inflation and school enrollment.
Parents like Rosthern’s Trina Miller, whose daughter required extensive support at school because of severe developmental delays and speech apraxia, say those services have eroded over the years due to continued underfunding for public education.
“Our teachers are tired, our parents are tired, we just need the government to get on-board with us and actually give the public education system predictable, reliable funding,”…
As more medical schools withdraw from the US News rankings, how should prospective students decide where to apply?
People love to rank things: college basketball teams, vacation spots, cars, vacuum cleaners … even medical schools. But a growing number of those schools say that the most well-known rankings do a disservice to them and to prospective students, and are refusing to participate in the process.
More than a dozen medical schools have recently announced that they will no longer provide data to US News & World Reports for its annual rankings because of the way those rankings are calculated. Notably, several schools that regularly place near the top, such as Harvard University, Stanford University, and the University of…
Carleton education workers vote against university’s latest offer
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“Our members have spoken. Carleton needs to act now to avert a strike.”
Published March 24, 2023 • Last updated Mar 24, 2023 • 3 minute read
Carleton University has released a list of over 2,700 courses that are marked as either “proceeding” — going ahead as scheduled — or “disrupted” — not going ahead — in the event of a strike starting Monday. Photo by Wayne Cuddington /POSTMEDIA
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Carleton University’s largest union said its members voted “overwhelmingly” against the university’s latest contract offer at a special membership meeting on Friday.
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Morden Adult Education Center seeing upward trend in enrollment – PembinaValleyOnline.com
Enrollment has doubled since the fall semester began at the Morden Adult Education Centre.
Director Todd Folett says their numbers have been down due to Covid, and they are now on their way up. He says enrollment has doubled from the start of the school year to a total of 85 students.
“We just started to see people coming back, I think starting to look for more of a routine, and for a lot of people it’s coming back to school and getting credits towards a mature diploma.”
Folett says a lot of employers in our region are finding it…