A complete list of media releases is available on the ETFO website.
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Ontario refuses to acknowledge link between schools being open and COVID cases increasing
Comments: Public school students and staff are being put at unnecessary risk because the Ford government and its Minister of Education are refusing to acknowledge the connection between schools being open and COVID-19 cases increasing. […]
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Pandemic magnifies employment struggles of Transgender people
Comments: Today’s Transgender Day of Remembrance brings heightened awareness that trans workers are struggling to find decent employment in Ontario. […]
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Student safety and learning needs a higher priority than pandemic pay to principals
Comments: Rather than give additional pandemic pay to principals and vice-principals, school boards should instead spend those funds on classroom safety and student supports, says the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO). […]
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Ontario budget provides no new funding to keep students and educators safe
Comments: Today’s Ontario budget delivered no new funding to ensure students have safe schools and the education supports they need. […]
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ETFO filing complaint with the Ontario Labour Relations Board regarding government’s revocation of Regulation 274
Comments: The Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) is filing a complaint today with the Ontario Labour Relations Board (OLRB) seeking a ruling against the government’s revocation of Regulation 274. […]
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ETFO and its locals to donate $175,000 to Feed Ontario and local food banks to help mitigate hunger during COVID pandemic
Comments: For the second time this year, the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) has made a donation of $75,000 to Feed Ontario and upped its matching donation to $50,000 for ETFO locals who are donating to community food banks in their communities. […]
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More explicit expectations for Black Curriculum needed in elementary schools to help stem anti-Black racism
Comments: The Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) is supporting calls by the Ontario Black History Society for the Ontario government to make Black studies a greater part of the public elementary curriculum. […]
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Ontario Education Minister creates further chaos in schools, reopens door to nepotism and cronyism in teacher hiring practi
Comments: Education Minister Stephen Lecce is creating further chaos in Ontario’s schools and reopening the door to nepotism and cronyism by scrapping a regulation that ensures fair hiring practices for teachers, ... […]
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Experts share their views on province’s flawed return to school plan
Comments: In the aftermath of the disappointing decision by the Ontario Labour Relations Board (OLRB) to dismiss, on jurisdictional grounds, the health and safety complaints regarding the re-opening of schools,... […]
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OLRB dismissal of unions’ case leaves Ontario’s flawed back to school plans without legal scrutiny
Comments: Ontario’s four major education unions are deeply concerned by the decision of the Chair of the Ontario Labour Relations Board to dismiss our health and safety case on the re-opening of schools based on ... […]
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