Thames Valley school board officials have a plan to boost grades, improve student literacy and math scores that haven’t kept up with provincial scotres, according to a report released this week.
Ontario education minister Paul Calandra has put the Thames Valley District school board – home to 84,000 students – under Queen’s Park supervision following a controversial three-day Toronto retreat by top officials last summer that cost $38,000. Investigators, auditing the board’s books, found a lack of financial oversight in the budgeting process led to a […]
Interlochen Public Radio
Minnesota and Wisconsin are bitter rivals at just about everything. So in 2019, when Wisconsin’s secretary of tourism claimed Wisconsin had more lakes than Minnesota, the embers of an age-old debate were stoked. Minnesota is known as the “Land of 10,000 Lakes”, but does Wisconsin really have more?
Officials with the London region’s largest school board say they have no plans to send any more students on class trips to the United States amid uncertainty at the border since President Donald Trump’s re-election. While student treks to America have been common for decades, the Thames Valley District school board “isn’t planning any future […]
Year-end exams loom for Thames Valley District school board students except for those in certain grades and teachers aren’t happy about it.
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Parents feel they must “constantly advocate” to get support for their children with special education needs in London-area public schools, a new report states.
The Thames Valley District school board has hired a consultant as it overhauls its communications department, its top official says.
Kincardine News
A local class is celebrating Inclusive Education Month with a big win for their efforts. “When we include everyone, and when we all come together, we make something beautiful,” said Kirsten Ryan, Grade 5 teacher at Huron Heights Public School, in a news release. “We’re better together.” Ryan and her class were announced as the […]
The Ministry of Education is saying little about its ongoing probe of the deficit-ridden Thames Valley school board including if the public will ever see the results.