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TORONTO - The Toronto Catholic District School Board is asking a judge to solve half its $34- million deficit problem.

TORONTO - Noel Martin thinks 42 years in Catholic education is not enough of a good thing. So he������Ƶapp come back for more.

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.

TORONTO - ������Ƶapp 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.

TORONTO - Nancy Kirby says her first priorities as Ontario Catholic School Trustees’ Association president will be ensuring “equitable and adequate funding” for Ontario������Ƶapp publicly funded Catholic schools and tackling the $68-million gap in special education funding for Catholic schools.

Kirby, 57, was elected OCSTA������Ƶapp president at its annual conference in Thunder Bay April 30.

TORONTO - The average full-time elementary school teacher in Ontario������Ƶapp 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.

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 union������Ƶapp existence.

Some of the most profound moments in my spiritual life — outside of  the sacraments and giving birth to my children — have been experienced in an ordinary Catholic elementary school right near my home in Mississauga, where I have run both a Rosary Club and Saints Club. The joys of praying with children, witnessing the prompting of their souls and feeling the abundant grace as they sang with united hearts, often left me speechless.

At times it could also be gut wrenching. Prayer petitions about everything from cancer, family break ups, job losses, to the death of a dear pet, tugged at our hearts. But in those moments of prayer, on Friday������Ƶapp at lunch time, we had each other and our faith.

TORONTO - Which religious traditions get support from publicly funded schools is going to be an issue in Ontario������Ƶapp Oct. 10 election, promises Ontario Progressive Conservative education critic Frank Klees.

TORONTO - As Ontario������Ƶapp 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 province������Ƶapp bishops.