Toronto school board is offering graduation coaches to Black students
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A Toronto District School Board pilot program that aims to help Black students graduate from high school successfully is being extended until at least June.
The program gives Black students across the TDSB access to a graduation coach, and many are already welcoming the news.
This is an amazing program. The coach is incredible. I hope the extend the program. Van (@Nessy123V) February 11, 2021
The pilot program started last March after a 2017 report by York University highlighted the racial inequalities within the Ontario school system when it comes to graduation rates.
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The Ottawa Catholic School Board is aiming to create three permanent virtual schools for next September and is asking interested families to sign up by Feb. 25.
The schools will have their own administration teams and names. They will be added to the board’s existing roster of 84 schools.
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Students from across the city who attend the schools will form a “virtual Catholic school community,” the board said in a message to parents on Friday.
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Starting Wednesday, Ontario high school students will have to confirm they have completed a daily checklist of COVID-19 symptoms that would bar them from attending school.
The requirement is one of the new measures Education Minister Stephen Lecce introduced to make schools safer as they reopen to in-person learning across the province.
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Students or parents on their behalf have been asked to conduct the daily COVID-19 screening test since schools opened last fall.
Is COVID-19 a concern for astronauts? : Ottawa students chat with astronaut on space station
Multi-Skilled Journalist It was an out of this world experience for a group of Ottawa students. As students become used to learning and connecting virtually through technology, on Friday, seventeen students with the Ottawa Carleton District School Board used radio waves to connect live with the International Space Station. They had an opportunity to ask questions to Mike S. Hopkins, as he was high above the earth. Connecting through amateur radio, students asked a variety of questions during an approximately 10-minute window. NASA says that as the space station travels at approximately eight kilometres per second, communication is only possible as the station is above our horizon.
Hundreds of international students will study at Ottawa’s English public and Catholic schools this term despite tightening restrictions on international travel and growing fears of the spread of new, more transmissible variants of the coronavirus.