Over 100,000 Ontario Students Return to Class Beginning Next week.
Today (Jan 20), Minister of Education, Stephen Lecce, provided an update on which schools can resume for in-person learning, saying this:
“On the advice from the Chief Medical Officer of Health, the government is allowing seven public health units and over 100,000 students to return to class on Monday, January 25th.
Getting students back into class is our top priority. According to Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health and leading medical and scientific experts, including the Hospital for Sick Children, Ontario’s schools are safe places for learning.
To ensure schools remain safe, the government is introducing additional measures including provincewide targeted asymptomatic testing, enhanced screening, mandatory masking for students in Grades 1-3 and outdoors where physical distancing cannot be maintained.”
Only seven regions in southern Ontario will be allowed to return to in-class learning next week. This doesn t include schools in the London area, meaning online learning will continue until further notice.
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Ontario’s Education Minister says over 100,000 students from multiple Public Health Units (PHUs) including Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge, and Peterborough Public Health, among others, will return for in-person learning next week.
“On the advice from the Chief Medical Officer of Health, the government is allowing seven public health units and over 100,000 students to return to class on Monday, January 25,” Education Minister Stephen Lecce said in a statement.
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Publishing date: Jan 08, 2021 • January 8, 2021 • 1 minute read
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Ontario students are again experiencing intermittent internet access during the first week of online learning in the province in 2021.
The provincewide issue, mostly affecting Cogeco subscribers, is the second of its kind this week.
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A tweet from @Cogecohelps, the company’s customer care account, stated, “We are aware of the outage affecting several customers. We are working hard to get this resolved as quickly as possible.”
Author of the article: The Whig-Standard
Publishing date: Jan 03, 2021 • January 4, 2021 • 2 minute read
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Kingston-area students, along with students across the province, temporarily moved to remote learning as they exited the Christmas holidays as part of the province’s fight to slow the spread of COVID-19.
From Jan. 4 to 8, elementary students from kindergarten to Grade 8 in both the Limestone District School Board and the Algonquin and Lakeshore Catholic District School Board will be temporarily joining virtual classrooms.
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Secondary school students in both boards will learn remotely from Jan. 4 to 25.