Wed, 22 Jan 2025 22:12:06 -0500 Website design by Concerto Designs concertodesigns.ca en-gb /features/catholic-education/item/11940-public-boards-seek-amalgamation-of-ontario%E2%80%99s-catholic-system /features/catholic-education/item/11940-public-boards-seek-amalgamation-of-ontario%E2%80%99s-catholic-system TORONTO - Six Ontario public school boards have passed motions calling for abolition of publicly funded Catholic education and that has Rick Johnson a little upset and embarrassed.
]]> Education Tue, 24 Apr 2007 23:28:19 -0400 /features/catholic-education/item/11939-crowd-comes-out-in-support-of-catholic-education-in-ontario /features/catholic-education/item/11939-crowd-comes-out-in-support-of-catholic-education-in-ontario TORONTO - öÏÓãÊÓƵapp 500 Catholic parents, pastors and teachers in Toronto staked a claim on the future of Catholic schools in the last of a province-wide series of consultations by the Institute for Catholic Education seeking community insight into future directions for Catholic education in Ontario.
]]> Education Mon, 23 Apr 2007 23:54:10 -0400 /features/catholic-education/item/11937-teachers-feeling-pressures-of-ontario%E2%80%99s-work-driven-society /features/catholic-education/item/11937-teachers-feeling-pressures-of-ontario%E2%80%99s-work-driven-society TORONTO - The average full-time elementary school teacher in OntarioöÏÓãÊÓƵapp Catholic system is putting in a 55.7-hour work week, and what counts as a part-time teaching job averages 36.8 hours per week, according to a new study commissioned by the teachers’ union.
]]> mikes@catholicregister.org (Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) Education Tue, 17 Apr 2007 01:47:12 -0400 /features/catholic-education/item/11936-social-justice-commitment-marked-kennedy%E2%80%99s-stay-at-oecta /features/catholic-education/item/11936-social-justice-commitment-marked-kennedy%E2%80%99s-stay-at-oecta TORONTO - Special education, religion and history teacher Donna Marie Kennedy is leaving her current job as president of the Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Association with the conviction that social justice is the cornerstone of her unionöÏÓãÊÓƵapp existence.
]]> mikes@catholicregister.org (Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) Education Tue, 17 Apr 2007 01:45:25 -0400 /features/catholic-education/item/11934-conservative-promises-school-funding-will-be-election-issue /features/catholic-education/item/11934-conservative-promises-school-funding-will-be-election-issue TORONTO - Which religious traditions get support from publicly funded schools is going to be an issue in OntarioöÏÓãÊÓƵapp Oct. 10 election, promises Ontario Progressive Conservative education critic Frank Klees.
]]> Education Thu, 01 Mar 2007 04:22:14 -0500 /features/catholic-education/item/11826-new-chancellor-at-st-jerome%E2%80%99s /features/catholic-education/item/11826-new-chancellor-at-st-jerome%E2%80%99s St. JeromeöÏÓãÊÓƵapp University has appointed Dr. Peter Naus as its next chancellor.
]]> Education Sun, 25 Feb 2007 22:15:06 -0500 /features/catholic-education/item/11731-toronto-schools-embrace-ecoschools-program /features/catholic-education/item/11731-toronto-schools-embrace-ecoschools-program TORONTO - Anna Zappone stands less than four feet tall holding a beach-ball sized model of the Earth and its atmosphere. SheöÏÓãÊÓƵapp no scientist, yet. But sheöÏÓãÊÓƵapp figured out a thing or two about global climate change.

]]> mikes@catholicregister.org (Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) Education Fri, 23 Feb 2007 01:34:05 -0500 /features/catholic-education/item/11730-book-ban-lifted /features/catholic-education/item/11730-book-ban-lifted MISSISSAUGA, Ont. - The award-winning novel Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson is back on school shelves for Catholic students in Dufferin-Peel west of Toronto.

]]> Education Fri, 23 Feb 2007 00:53:43 -0500 /features/catholic-education/item/11933-changes-on-the-way-for-high-school-chaplains /features/catholic-education/item/11933-changes-on-the-way-for-high-school-chaplains TORONTO - As OntarioöÏÓãÊÓƵapp high school chaplains try to figure out a new name for their job that fits canon law, they’re also making a bid for some respect. And they’re starting to get it from the provinceöÏÓãÊÓƵapp bishops.
]]> mikes@catholicregister.org (Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) Education Fri, 16 Feb 2007 05:14:02 -0500 /features/catholic-education/item/11932-priestly-presence-diluted-but-basilians-still-on-campus /features/catholic-education/item/11932-priestly-presence-diluted-but-basilians-still-on-campus TORONTO - When the Basilian Fathers let slip that they won’t be appointing any more of their men to positions at SaskatoonöÏÓãÊÓƵapp St. Thomas More College it was no great shock to anyone in the Catholic education community. You can’t appoint men who don’t exist.
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