When the Toronto police board met [last] week, a lesser-known police initiative called the School Resource Officer program was a minor item buried deep on a packed agenda — and nowhere near the [...]
York Region trustees to undergo training in wake of scathing report York Region District School Board approves plan for trustees to get training in governance and equity issues. The York Region [...]
The political drama that’s been unfolding at the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) over school closures and tight funding is totally avoidable, says the author of a new study from the [...]
When discussing amalgamation of schools, it is important to know which size schools are able to best serve various communities. Studies are favouring smaller, rather than the larger schools [...]
January 30, 2015 For Immediate Release Toronto, Friday January 30, 2015 – The Ontario Government is cutting the provincial education budget by $500,000 (a half billion dollars) and then [...]
With 130 “underutilized” Toronto schools on a list for possible closure, critics say the province’s method for determining whether they are at capacity fails to capture the reality in many of the [...]
Is a school half full or half empty? That depends on how you measure. As the Toronto District School Board scrambles to name schools that are less than two-thirds full by Queen’s Park’s [...]
TDSB trustees are challenging key aspects of the Minister of education directives. “Trustee Chris Tonks said agreeing to give up their assistants is “asinine. We’re eating ourselves alive [...]
TDSB staff published a list Jan 28th of 130 schools (many in active use as daycares and adult education centres) which are deemed underutilized when measured by the extremely limited Ontario [...]
