Feature Series Thu, 23 Jan 2025 04:27:04 -0500 Website design by Concerto Designs concertodesigns.ca en-gb Toronto Arrowsmith program saved /features/catholic-education/item/11630-toronto-arrowsmith-program-saved /features/catholic-education/item/11630-toronto-arrowsmith-program-saved {mosimage}TORONTO - The newly appointed provincial supervisor of the Toronto Catholic District School Board is overturning a controversial decision to axe the Arrowsmith program, effectively ending a lawsuit against the board and OntarioƵapp education minister.

Richard Alway said in a letter to parents that after a “careful review,” and in consultation with the boardƵapp director of education, he has decided to continue the program for students currently enrolled until 2012.

]]> sheilad@catholicregister.org (Sheila Dabu Nonato, The Catholic Register) Education Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:32:11 -0400 Brampton school named after Cardinal Ambrozic /features/catholic-education/item/11629-brampton-school-named-after-cardinal-ambrozic /features/catholic-education/item/11629-brampton-school-named-after-cardinal-ambrozic {mosimage}BRAMPTON, Ont. - More than 300 students celebrated the opening of the first Canadian high school named after former Toronto archbishop Cardinal Aloysius Ambrozic on Sept. 8.

Principal Tim Lariviere said the Brampton school is honouring Ambrozic in a number of ways. Its coat of arms includes many of AmbrozicƵapp own coat of arms, complete with the cardinalƵapp hat, cross and the picture of the lion representing the Gospel of Mark, the topic of AmbrozicƵapp doctoral thesis.

]]> sheilad@catholicregister.org (Sheila Dabu Nonato, The Catholic Register) Education Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:06:32 -0400 Bill could limit Catholic school trustees' powers /features/catholic-education/item/11628-bill-could-limit-catholic-school-trustees-powers /features/catholic-education/item/11628-bill-could-limit-catholic-school-trustees-powers {mosimage}TORONTO  - The Ontario governmentƵapp proposed bill on student accountability would diminish the powers of democratically elected school trustees, says the president of the .

Paula Peroni told The Catholic Register that if passed in the Ontario legislature, Bill 177 would increase the provincial governmentƵapp control over school boards.

]]> sheilad@catholicregister.org (Sheila Dabu Nonato, The Catholic Register) Education Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:12:43 -0400 Catholic teacher hiring policy taken to rights tribunal /features/catholic-education/item/11627-catholic-teacher-hiring-policy-taken-to-rights-tribunal /features/catholic-education/item/11627-catholic-teacher-hiring-policy-taken-to-rights-tribunal {mosimage}Hiring only Catholic teachers at publicly funded Catholic schools is “unfair” and discriminatory, says a Guelph-area teacher who has recently taken the to the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal.

“ItƵapp unfair for a large organization to accept large taxpayer dollars, including my own, and then not being interested in hiring everybody from whom those tax dollars come from,” Jesse Lloyd told The Catholic Register in an interview from Guelph.

]]> sheilad@catholicregister.org (Sheila Dabu Nonato, The Catholic Register) Education Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:09:19 -0400 Halton board celebrates 40 years /features/catholic-education/item/11626-halton-board-celebrates-40-years /features/catholic-education/item/11626-halton-board-celebrates-40-years {mosimage}BURLINGTON, Ont - Alice Anne LeMay recalls playing the role of “hot dog lady” at a basketball game for special needs students in the .

LeMay, whose son has a hearing disability, said itƵapp activities like these which highlight the Catholic and “inclusive” spirit of the Halton board over the past four decades.

]]> sheilad@catholicregister.org (Sheila Dabu Nonato, The Catholic Register) Education Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:04:54 -0400 St. Joseph's Morrow Park gets three-year reprieve /features/catholic-education/item/11625-st-josephs-morrow-park-gets-three-year-reprieve /features/catholic-education/item/11625-st-josephs-morrow-park-gets-three-year-reprieve {mosimage}TORONTO - St. JosephƵapp Morrow Park High School students can breathe a sigh of relief — at least for the next three years.

The Toronto Catholic District School Board is finalizing a deal with Tyndale College, which has been leasing the property to the board since 2006, that would allow students to remain at the school temporarily. Tyndale bought the 20-hectare property from the Sisters of St. Joseph three years ago. 

]]> sheilad@catholicregister.org (Sheila Dabu Nonato, The Catholic Register) Education Mon, 21 Sep 2009 01:35:36 -0400 Some Ontario Catholic boards already run full-day kindergarten /features/catholic-education/item/11624-some-ontario-catholic-boards-already-run-full-day-kindergarten /features/catholic-education/item/11624-some-ontario-catholic-boards-already-run-full-day-kindergarten {mosimage}TORONTO - Full-day kindergarten is an investment in the future and a “courageous” decision during a time of economic downturn, says the head of the Catholic teachers' union.

But it's also not unfamiliar to Catholic schools, James Ryan told The Catholic Register, given that eight Catholic boards have some form of full-day kindergarten.

]]> sheilad@catholicregister.org (Sheila Dabu Nonato, The Catholic Register) Education Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:49:41 -0500 Toronto Catholic board won’t expand single-gender schools /features/catholic-education/item/11623-toronto-catholic-board-won%E2%80%99t-expand-single-gender-schools /features/catholic-education/item/11623-toronto-catholic-board-won%E2%80%99t-expand-single-gender-schools {mosimage}TORONTO - In the wake of calls to open all-boys schools by the Toronto public system, the Toronto Catholic District School Board said it has no plans to follow suit.

There are four all-boys schools in the Toronto Catholic school board right now, one — St. MichaelƵapp Choir School — which is open to elementary school-age children.

]]> sheilad@catholicregister.org (Sheila Dabu Nonato, The Catholic Register) Education Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:59:56 -0400 Toronto Catholic school board shut put surplus back into schools /features/catholic-education/item/11622-toronto-catholic-school-board-shut-put-surplus-back-into-schools /features/catholic-education/item/11622-toronto-catholic-school-board-shut-put-surplus-back-into-schools {mosimage}TORONTO - Fixing up schools, having more special education teachers and fully restoring the controversial Arrowsmith program should be some of the projects funded by the projected budget surplus of the Toronto Catholic District School Board, say education groups.

Murielle Boudreau, chair of the Greater Toronto Catholic Parent Network, says the board is falling behind in its maintenance of schools.

]]> sheilad@catholicregister.org (Sheila Dabu Nonato, The Catholic Register) Education Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:53:59 -0400 Dufferin-Peel board to set book guidelines /features/catholic-education/item/11621-dufferin-peel-board-to-set-book-guidelines /features/catholic-education/item/11621-dufferin-peel-board-to-set-book-guidelines {mosimage}MISSISSAUGA, Ont. - Trustees at the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board will review a proposal Nov. 24 that would have all novels pre-approved for use in the classroom by a central committee.

“We conceptualized the need for such a proposal in the last couple of years and have been doing a lot of work for what makes sense for our system and how we develop a proposal thatƵapp going to honour the professionalism and the local decision making that we want our teachers and administrators to continue to do,” said superintendent of program Marianne Mazzorato.

]]> carolyng@catholicregister.org (Carolyn Girard, The Catholic Register) Education Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:53:38 -0500