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When Tia Schaefer turned 19, she faced a “survive or die” situation. She had been in government care for four years, starting when she was 15. She spent a year in a foster home and three years on a youth agreement – a form of independent living with financial support from the government. At age […]
Recent investment in universal early childhood education in Nova Scotia is helping to shape a different future for the province’s youngest generation and their families. Elementary school in Nova Scotia has traditionally started with what’s termed Grade Primary, when children are five years old. But now the province is moving into year three of rolling out a […]
In Sam Harding’s view, detention is a waste of time. She works as a teacher at a school in the Toronto area, and her name has been changed for privacy reasons. “I don’t use detention at all as a means of punishment,” she said. “I think that time could be used more wisely for something else,” she said. Her co-worker, […]
There’s cause for celebration at early learning centres and daycares across New Brunswick. A wage top-up for early childhood educators (ECE) is now being made available to thousands more ECEs working across the province Meaghan Robichaud has worked in early childhood education in Moncton for more than a decade. She has with a one-year diploma […]
Some teachers from Toronto are organizing this Rally and we wanted to invite all members of Fix Our Schools to attend. This is one way to demonstrate to the Ford government that safe, healthy, well-maintained schools are a priority! Here are the details: WHAT: Calling all education workers, parents, labour affiliates, community partners and allies […]
Mental health advocate Anne O’Riordan has been awarded the 2019 Family Advocacy Award – the highest award given by Family and Children’s Services or Frontenac, Lennox and Addington. The award, held every year to celebrate Family Day, recognizes an individual, group or organization for their contribution to making the lives of families in KFL&A better. […]
TORONTO, Feb. 20, 2019 /CNW/ – Canada’s largest and longest-running health and safety conference and trade show, Partners in Prevention 2019, takes place on April 30 and May 1, 2019 in Toronto. This year’s edition, with the theme What’s Your Story?, will highlight the ‘safety superhero’ who advocates for health and safety in the workplace. […]
TORONTO – Ontario’s education minister is defending the $140,000 salary for a failed Tory candidate to lead a standardized testing organization – a job that was previously a part-time appointment. Cameron Montgomery was announced recently as the new full-time chair of the board of directors of the Education Quality and Accountability Office, a position that […]
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Nova Scotia (CCPA-NS) released a new report today that provides a snapshot of what it is like for Early Childhood Educators (ECE) to work in the Early Learning and Child Care sector in Nova Scotia. Understanding which factors influence their recruitment and retention is critical because we know high turnover […]
Today, the Honourable Lisa Thompson, Minister of Education, issued the following statement: “The Ministry of Education invited teachers’ federations, education worker unions and trustees’ associations to meet to begin discussing ways to improve teacher hiring practices, while also seeking feedback on class sizes in kindergarten to Grade 12. We are modernizing the way we fund […]