Ontario introducing plan to limit cellphone use, social media, vaping in schools
Ontario will limit cellphone use in classrooms, restrict access to all social-media networks and ban vaping on school properties this fall.
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Ontario will limit cellphone use in classrooms, restrict access to all social-media networks and ban vaping on school properties this fall.
Members of the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario (ETFO) have approved their contract with the province, with 90 per cent of the union's 80,000 teachers voting in favour.
Education workers with the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario have voted 80 per cent in favour of a new four-year contract.
The Waterloo Region District School Board (WRDSB) says they are concerned about protests planned coast-to-coast on Wednesday Sept. 20 that question policies surrounding gender and LGBTQ2S+ issues in Ontario schools.
The ETFO will not be heading into arbitration with the province. It will instead file for conciliation and hold a provincewide strike vote in September.