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The battle between Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty and the province’s teachers is escalating, leaving him facing his first showdown with labour just as delicate talks to save his minority government enter the 11th hour.
The latest salvo comes from Ontario’s high-school teachers, who are gearing up to launch a legal challenge against the government for its hardball approach to collective bargaining. This comes after disgruntled elementary teachers walked away from the bargaining table, and as a fight is brewing between the government and the province’s doctors.
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Ontario’s moving to reduce the number of students returning for a fifth year of high school, causing some local students to worry about being pushed out of their schools before they’re ready.
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the number of high school credits will be capped at 34
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The credit cap wouldn’t take effect until the 2013-14 school year.
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Ontario can't say how many schools will close under proposed cuts announced in this week's budget, or which areas may be most deeply affected.
Education Minister Laurel Broten says the government is committed to ending subsidies for underused schools, but it will be up to school boards to decide which ones to shut down.
More than 16% of Ontario elementary and secondary schools are under used with almost 363,000 student spots unfilled, Ministry of Education figures show.
"The sick day gratuity for teachers … people don’t realize that’s a huge liability,” he said, referring to the 200 days teachers can bank over their career and cash in when they retire for an average windfall of $46,000."
A University of Windsor professor, local high school physical education department head and several students back the provincial NDP's call to make physical education mandatory through Grade 12 in Ontario.
Teacher training in the province will be bumped up to two years starting in 2014, says the Ontario government.
Buying an iPad and this version of Photoshop is almost cheaper than buying the regular version of Photoshop! I'll have to read some reviews first, but I may buy myself a copy.
This has to be the best e-learning technology story of 2011. Datawind, a relatively small Canadian company based in Montreal, has won an Indian government contract to produce a 7 inch touchscreen tablet named Aakash that costs $52 to manufacture and will sell, with Indian government subsidy, for $35 for universities, colleges and high schools in India. The tablet runs on Google’s Android software.
Check out the excellent video about how this school district is using Google Apps for EDU.
Few other graduates in Canada have as much reason for pessimism as those who finished teacher’s college this spring. A study from the Ontario College of Teachers shows that two-thirds (67 per cent) of education graduates from Ontario’s class of 2009 found themselves unemployed or underemployed in the following year. And, the unemployment rate among new teachers has exploded to a staggering 24 per cent — up from just three per cent in 2006.
After a 27-year absence from North America, Fiat is back and Performance Cars of St. Catharines has them.
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