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Tuition increases ruled out as a way to help post-secondary finances, Ford says
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. - Ontario Premier Doug Ford has completely ruled out tuition fee increases as a way to ease financial struggles faced by the province's colleges and universities. Late last month For...
Feb 13, 2024
Schools selected for specialized support classroom pilot as bargaining continues
As teachers in Saskatchewan continue to push for classroom complexity to be included in their new collective agreement, the provincial government is taking steps to address the issues. The provincial ...
Feb 13, 2024 Teachers and supporters picket in Saskatoon during a single-day strike in January. (Mia Holowaychuk/650 CKOM)
Minister was warned lifting international student work limit could undermine program
OTTAWA - Allowing international students to work more than 20 hours a week could distract from their studies and undermine the objective of temporary foreign worker programs, public servants warned th...
Feb 13, 2024
Province touts new teacher support fund as bargaining resumes
As the provincial government and teachers get back to bargaining, the Ministry of Education is touting the funds it has provided to support new innovations in the classroom. The ministry is set to res...
Feb 12, 2024 Nine successful applications will get more than $400,000 in funding through the new pilot program. (650 CKOM file photo)
Teachers, province hope to hammer out new deal as bargaining resumes
The Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation and the provincial government have both made it clear that they want a solution to come out of the next two days of collective bargaining. "We want to get this de...
Feb 12, 2024 Teachers picket during a single-day strike in Saskatoon on Jan. 16, 2024. (Mia Holowaychuk/650 CKOM)
Republican lawmakers are backing dozens of bills targeting diversity efforts on campus and elsewhere
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Diversity initiatives would be defunded or banned from universities and other public institutions under a slate of bills pending in Republican-led legislatures, with some lawmake...
Feb 09, 2024
Teachers across Canada adding working conditions to agreements
Saskatchewan's collective bargaining agreement for teachers is very thin, according to the federal body representing teachers. Heidi Yetman, president of the Canadian Teachers Federation, told Evan Br...
Feb 09, 2024 Teachers in Saskatchewan have been attending to picket lines over their classrooms in an effort to spur government action in negotiating a new collective agreement. Many provinces have already allowed for such negotiations. (Mia Holowaychuk/650 CKOM)
Utah governor says school board member who questioned a student's gender ‘embarrassed the state’
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Utah's Republican governor and lieutenant governor are urging the State Board of Education to take action against a conservative board member whose social media post questioning ...
Feb 08, 2024
Tennessee House advances bill addressing fire alarms in response to Nashville school shooting
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Legislation requiring that schools determine the cause of a fire alarm being triggered before instructing children leave a classroom was advanced unanimously by the Tennessee H...
Feb 08, 2024
Local CUPE president standing with Sask. teachers on class sizes
With Saskatchewan teachers and the province slated to go back to the bargaining table Monday, the discussion around classroom size and complexity appears to once again be ramping up. Since the start o...
Feb 08, 2024 Class size has been a sticking point in negotiations between teachers and the provincial government. (650 CKOM file photo)
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