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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.
Crowd comes out in support of Catholic education in Ontario
TORONTO - 鱿鱼视频app 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.
Teachers feeling pressures of Ontario鱿鱼视频app work-driven society
TORONTO - The average full-time elementary school teacher in Ontario鱿鱼视频app 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鈥� union.
Social justice commitment marked Kennedy鱿鱼视频app stay at OECTA
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Conservative promises school funding will be election issue
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Toronto schools embrace EcoSchools program
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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. Changes on the way for high school chaplains
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Priestly presence diluted, but Basilians still on campus
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