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Officials with the Waterloo Region District School Board say they’re proactively preparing to move to online learning in 2022.

Waterloo Catholic District School Board (WCDSB) trustees have voted to allow teachers to upgrade the protective masks they wear, even though some administrators say the move wasn't necessary.

After much pushback, trustees passed a motion Monday granting teachers superior PPE within the classroom

  WATERLOO -- Ontario's newly announced back-to-school plan falls short on providing guidance surrounding vaccines and contact tracing, teachers' unions in Waterloo Region say. "It's just a revision of what we've been doing for the past 18 months and there's nothing really of substance, nothing new," said Patrick Etmanski with Ontario English Catholic Teachers' Association Waterloo Region. Ontario's plan for September, revealed on Tuesday, will see all students able to return to the classroom full time for the first time in months. Remote learning will still be an option. The 26-page p...

  WATERLOO -- As thousands of unvaccinated Ontario students could face stricter isolation rules when school resumes in September, Guelph's top doctor says vaccination status will be a factor when outbreaks are declared. This fall, the vaccine status of students 12 to 17 will be a factor in an outbreak. "If you're unvaccinated you will be required to have two tests, seven days apart. You will be required to go home and if one of those tests becomes positive, again you have to add on to that another 10 days," said Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph's medical officer of health, Dr. Nicola Mercer. ...