Thames Valley District school board

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Thames Valley is eliminating the equivalent of 33 secondary teaching positions as it continues to wrestle with its mounting $16.5M deficit.

The London-area's largest school board is forging ahead with the naming of four new schools, striking a committee of trustees and administrators to select each one.

Queen's Park is still finalizing the framework of a planned probe into the operations and finances of Southwestern Ontario's largest school board, an education ministry official says.

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Three local elementary schools set to open next year will have pared-down music programs after Thames Valley District school board trustees absolved themselves of making a decision over instruments, instructing staff to make the call.

The London region’s Catholic school board is planning for a nearly $900,000 deficit as it pays for portables and extra school buses to handle “extreme growth” in its student population. The London District Catholic school board is expecting a shortfall of about $883,000 in its 2024-25 budget year, down from

While almost everyone in the Thames Valley District school board was safe and warm at home during a major snow event that closed all London-area schools for two days this week, one group of employees was forced to get to work anyway.

As if we didn’t have enough snow already, Thursday is expected to bring another wintry wallop starting in Bruce County around Wiarton and moving southeast toward the London area. Follow along below for to-the-minute coverage from our journalists across the region 7:04 a.m. In the Owen Sound area, an estimated

The embattled London-area public school board spent more than $225,000 on advice from damage-control consulting firm Navigator in 2021 and 2022, documents obtained by The Free Press show – but officials won't say why.

With snow flurries continuing in London Tuesday morning, school buses were cancelled and several schools shut down across the city and region. There was a risk of snow squalls in the city and area with five centimetres of snow expected and wind gusting to 20 kilometres/hour near noon, Environment Canada

As the Thames Valley District school board develops a Queen's Park-mandated policy for evaluating its education director, the last top boss remains off work but collecting his paycheque after almost three months.