{mosimage}TORONTO - Peter Cmorej, just three years removed from his Slovakian homeland, achieved the highest marks of any student graduating from a Toronto Catholic high school this year.
{mosimage}TORONTO - Declining student enrolment will be a key issue this coming school year for Ontario Catholic school boards, says the president of the .
鈥淭here are quite frankly less children and I think, with the exception of four or five boards experiencing some growth, the rest are in declining mode,鈥� Paula Peroni told The Catholic Register.
{mosimage}TORONTO - Parents and student councils should be consulted before the Catholic school board assigns police to about eight high schools, says a Toronto-based parents鈥� group.
{mosimage}TORONTO - Michael Baillargeon, a former candidate for a seat on the Toronto Catholic District School Board, is taking Oliver Carroll to court alleging Carroll improperly influenced the board鱿鱼视频app budget process to prevent his daughter from being laid off from her teaching job with the board.
{mosimage}TORONTO - Eight police officers will be stationed at Catholic high schools across Toronto starting this October.
The Toronto Catholic District School Board said police officers would be placed at Archbishop Romero, Bishop Marroco/Thomas Merton, Cardinal Newman, Don Bosco, James Cardinal McGuigan, Mary Ward, Michael Power/St. Joseph and St. Patrick Catholic High Schools.
{mosimage}TORONTO - Eight police officers will be stationed at Catholic high schools across Toronto starting this October.
The Toronto Catholic District School Board said police officers would be placed at Archbishop Romero, Bishop Marroco/Thomas Merton, Cardinal Newman, Don Bosco, James Cardinal McGuigan, Mary Ward, Michael Power/St. Joseph and St. Patrick Catholic High Schools.
{mosimage}TORONTO - In an effort to regain the public鱿鱼视频app trust and confidence, the Toronto Catholic District School Board will be making large cuts to trustee expenses and reducing the board鱿鱼视频app overall budget deficit by $8 million, according to a new report by provincial government-appointed supervisor Norbert Hartmann.
In an Aug. 26 report, Hartmann said the board鱿鱼视频app accumulated deficit will be less than $10.2 million next year compared to $18.8 million last August.
The report by Ernst & Young, which did not identify trustees by name, said $914,013 of the $943,783 in trustees' total expenses from Dec. 1, 2005, to May 28, 2008, were deemed eligible. Eligible expenses included Internet connection charges, office furniture, charitable donations and advertising expenses, the report said.
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One pet peeve, she said, is when the television is on even if no one is watching because it鱿鱼视频app an energy waster.
Kathleen Wynne told The Catholic Register she's satisfied with the amount of time it took police to review trustees' expenses, which were released in a Nov. 12 audit report by Ernst & Young.
In a Nov. 18 financial brief to Ontario Education Minister Kathleen Wynne, the association said while special education grants total almost $2.1 billion, many school boards 鈥渃ontinue to express serious concerns about the ongoing gap between the cost of current programs and services for students and special needs and current funding levels.鈥�
But the proposal isn鈥檛 suggesting that Catholic schools are more dangerous than any other workplace, said Elaine MacNeil, president of OECTA.