Parents rally outside Queen’s Park following the release of Ontario’s sex-ed curriculum. Some parents plan to take their kids out of school May 4-8 in protest of the curriculum.

Sex-ed opponents call for student strike

TORONTO - A parent group is calling for children to be pulled out of school during Education Week in Ontario to protest the province’s new sexual-education curriculum.

TCDSB chair Mike Del Grande

Provincial cuts to TCDSB not as drastic as expected

TORONTO - Toronto’s Catholic school board will still see fewer dollars from the provincial Grants for Student Needs next school year.

Students from Toronto’s Senator O’Connor College School stand in their school foyer. According to Ontario’s Ministry of Education data, more than 80% of English Catholic high school students graduate in four years compared to the 69% of student graduates in English public boards.

Catholic high school graduation rates better than public boards

Students at Ontario’s Catholic high schools are graduating at a significantly higher rate than those at public schools, according to data released by the Ministry of Education.

The St. Agatha school community won $25,000 for new technology because they implemented environmental initiatives like a recycling program, old-battery collection and hosted four Scarborough Green Fairs.

St. Agatha gets $25K for ‘outstanding’ green program

TORONTO - For years, students at St. Agatha Catholic School have gotten by with “archaic laptop” computers.   But they’ve received a $25,000 surprise that will soon get them plugged into modern technology. 

Terry Sheridan will takeover as headmaster for Toronto's Northmount School for Boys Sept. 1 this year.

St. Michael’s College principal is moving to Northmount

TORONTO - St. Michael College School is preparing to say goodbye to principal Terry Sheridan.

Sheridan, who has spent 17 of his 20 years in education at St. Michael’s, officially takes over Sept. 1 as headmaster at Toronto’s Northmount School for Boys.

Paul Crawford

‘Code of silence’ keeps students in harm’s way, panel hears

TORONTO - Schools could be made safer by eliminating a “code of silence” among students that discourages them from informing on classmates, said the head of a panel on school safety.

St. Sylvester Catholic School students perform their rendition of Three Trees lead by lead actor John Porathur, Grade 7, who played Jesus Christ.

Easter play shows students 'God's love changes everything'

TORONTO - Toronto Catholic students are bringing the story of Jesus Christ to life for their peers during Holy Week.

Ann Hawkins is the new president of the Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association. When asked about balancing a school board’s deficit, Perkins said savings can be found elsewhere in a school system rather than cuts to the classroom.

OECTA president to focus on relationship building

Over the next two years Ann Hawkins hopes to use her position as the new Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association’s (OECTA) president to build relationships and protect the Catholic classroom.

TCDSB chair Mike Del Grande, left, and director of education Angela Gauthier.

Toronto Catholic board could see 300 teacher cuts

TORONTO - Budgeting blunders that left an unexpected deficit, coupled with a potential two-per-cent cut in provincial grants, could leave the Toronto Catholic District School Board with more than 300 fewer frontline educators in September.

Toronto Catholic District School board chair Michael Del Grande says that human error and an inadequate system of checks and balances in the board’s accounting department led to the nearly $17-million deficit.

TCDSB dealing with a $16.9-million shortfall due to accounting error

TORONTO - An accounting error in the previous budget means that the Toronto Catholic District School Board is expected to end this school year with a $16.9-million deficit.

About 500 people gathered outside Queen’s Park Feb. 24, many with signs in hand, voicing concerns about Ontario’s revised sexual education curriculum which was unveiled slightly more than 24 hours earlier.

Schools to teach sex ed through Catholic lens

OTTAWA - Ontario Catholic authorities believe Catholic teaching is protected in the province’s new sex education curriculum, though pro-family groups don’t share in that optimism.

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