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In the News9/4/2009Making every head count By: Marcus Gee - The Globe and Mail The new director of Toronto's public board is trying to save a troubled school system, one student at a time12/1/2008 Ontario teachers stand firmly against salary offer By: Jeff Gray - The Globe & Mail11/14/2008 Report seeks $100-million for youth programs By: Timothy Appleby - The Globe and Mail Created after death of Jordan Manners, provincial review ends with requests for spending, creation of a youth commissioner, more central role for schools in community4/22/2008 Teach kindergarten outside school, adviser says By: JILL MAHONEY - The Globe and Mail Ontario plan would allow full-day classes to be held in community centres, churches and daycares in boards where space is tight4/18/2008 Facing the reality of low enrolment By: Editorial - Toronto Star4/18/2008 Continuing education given reprieve, for now By: Kristin Rushowy - Toronto Star4/2/2008 Keeping immigrant kids in school By: Louise Brown - Toronto Star Researchers suggest new teaching approach will engage those new to English language4/1/2008 Cuts in homework proposed By: Kristin Rushowy - Toronto Star3/7/2008 Education assistants to stay in classroom By: Kristin Rushowy - Toronto Star Board votes for no further cuts to ranks 3/7/2008 Board votes to boost number of ESL teachers By: JILL MAHONEY - The Globe and Mail3/5/2008 Jobs of classroom helpers at risk By: Kristin Rushowy - The Toronto Star Cutting 230 assistants would save board $10M; Toronto reading program could also be dropped 2/29/2008 High-school graduate numbers on the rise, Ontario says By: JILL MAHONEY - Globe and Mail2/28/2008 High school grad rates inching up By: Kerry Gillespie - Toronto Star 2/22/2008 'Safe Schools Action Team' to advise education ministry By: Kristin Rushowy - Toronto Star9/7/2007 Full-day kindergarten gets top marks By: Kristin Rushowy - Toronto Star Catholic board's pilot program shows that all-day classes boost reading, social skills in young children9/5/2007 Fairly safe is not safe enough By: Editorial - Globe and Mail8/12/2007 School safety panel criticized By: Iain Marlow - Toronto Star `This is not going to bring any changes,' says friend of Jordan Manners' mother to chairman Falconer 7/24/2007 Funding faith-based schools 'a bad idea,' minister says By: KAREN HOWLETT - Globe and Mail7/16/2007 Keeping at-risk youth on the right path By: ANTHONY REINHART - Globe and Mail Successful stay-in-school program set to expand across, and perhaps beyond, Ontario 6/29/2007 School's out – and locked tight By: Carol Goar - Toronto Star6/27/2007 Ontarians want public, Catholic schools to merge: poll 6/21/2007 School facilities wasted after hours: Report By: Lisa Abel - Toronto Star6/13/2007 ESL funds used to heat schools By: Kristin Rushowy - Toronto Star Cash-strapped Toronto board uses only half of language allocation to instruct newcomers 6/9/2007 Forging ties with community partners By: David Bruser - Toronto Star Toronto Star series inspires a mother, businesses and others to help needy schools 6/6/2007 Welcome to the neighbourhood By: David Bruser - Toronto Star To reach out to the community, a school must take a simple step: Unlock the front door6/6/2007 $4 million safe haven plan opens schools for summer By: Kerry Gillespie and Kristin Rushowy - Toronto Star Jordan Manners’ school one of more than 150 where youth activities, summer jobs planned6/6/2007 Welcome to the neighbourhood By: David Bruser - Toronto Star To reach out to the community, a school must take a simple step: Unlock the front door6/5/2007 Breakfast offers food for thought By: David Bruser - Toronto Star Since students do poorly on an empty stomach, successful schools are serving a morning meal 6/4/2007 A tale of two schools By: David Bruser - Toronto Star Both serve the neediest kids, but at one, parents are welcomed and tummies are filled 6/4/2007 Bullying officially illegal under schools act By: Canadian Press - Toronto Star5/31/2007 Education Minister targets improved literacy rate By: STEVE RENNIE - Globe and Mail Pass rate for Grade 10 comprehension test fails to better 84-per-cent mark set last year5/25/2007 Mentors preferred to detectors By: Louise Brown & Daniel Girard - Toronto Star Cameras coming, but board officials say `our mandate is prevention, not policing'5/17/2007 School fundraising is raising questions By: Toronto Star Talking Point: Education5/10/2007 School fundraising reaches $567-million By: JILL MAHONEY - Globe and Mail Parents worry that classrooms in rich neighbourhoods will become better equipped5/7/2007 Newcomers baffled by school system By: Kristin Rushowy - Toronto Star5/2/2007 School funding controversy stirs again By: Ian Urquhart - Toronto Star 5/2/2007 Students get a taste of university By: Kristin Rushowy - Toronto Teens earn dual college, high school credits5/2/2007 More than half of ESL students without specialist teachers By: JILL MAHONEY - Globe and Mail4/20/2007 A million-dollar model By: Trips, computers, breakfasts part of three-year pr4/11/2007 Ontario to ease school policy on expelling students for violence By: Canadian Press - Globe and Mail3/15/2007 Boards beg for time on smaller classes By: Leslie Ferenc, Kerry Gillespie, Kristin Rushowy - Concern growing that GTA schools won't be able to meet the province's fall deadline3/5/2007 You can't tell a school by its neighbourhood By: Editorial - Globe and Mail3/5/2007 `Zero tolerance' gets failing grade By: Tess Kalinowski - Toronto Star Safe Schools Act pushes kids into crime, group says; minister vows changes this spring 1/23/2007 'We need to integrate schools into the community' By: ANDRÉ PICARD - The Globe and Mail Smart planning and architecture integral to creating healthy buildings1/23/2007 Nationwide healthy school strategy urged By: CAROLINE ALPHONSO - Globe and Mail1/22/2007 Where the ABCs of health are part of the core curriculum By: André Picard - Globe and Mail New Brunswick program aims to promote physical, mental well-being 1/22/2007 Learning lessons anything but elementary By: JENNIFER LEWINGTON - The Globe and Mail Adapting to new school system a struggle for many immigrants1/18/2007 He's kicking it up a notch Email story Print Choose text size Report typo or correction Email the author iCopyright permissions Tag and save John Davies takes Humber helm in July after three decades as frontline educator By: Louise Brown - TORONTO STAR12/18/2006 Dufferin- Peel school board snubs cost-cutter By: TESS KALINOWSKI - Toronto Star12/7/2006 Parents reach across barriers By: CAROL GOAR - Toronto Star12/6/2006 New teachers not guaranteed jobs in Ontario By: VIRGINIA GALT - Globe and Mail11/20/2006 Fresh ideas for politics of tomorrow Students look for a better electoral system in Ontario By: TESS KALINOWSKI - Toronto Star11/15/2006 Toronto Public School Board trustees poised to become a potential headache for Queen's Park Liberals By: IAN URQUHART - Toronto Star10/26/2006 Toronto board balances budget By: TESS KALINOWSKI - Toronto Star 11th-hour deal averts provincial takeover Schools, teachers, swimming pools safe10/26/2006 Schools face budget doomsday By: CAROLINE ALPHONSO - Globe and Mail10/25/2006 Trustees to vote on new budget By: TESS KALINOWSKI - Toronto Star Plan would eliminate $84.5M deficit School board buys time for solution10/24/2006 Schools spared in cutback proposal Toronto board set to slash more than $80M Last-ditch moves to balance budget10/19/2006 Public education binds us together By: Editorial - Toronto Star This is an edited excerpt of a speech by Senator Hugh Segal on Monday night at a tribute dinner for Annie Kidder of People for Education:10/19/2006 A class of its own By: TESS KALINOWSKI - Toronto Star Mississauga school's success due to innovative methods Students achieve higher marks on provincial testing10/13/2006 Schools team sees $91.8M in cuts By: TESS KALINOWSKI - Toronto Star Report critiques provincial funding Still faults public board for shortfall10/13/2006 `If you get the grades, you get to go' By: LOUISE BROWN - Toronto Star Ignatieff vows to help at-risk kids get education Praises program at Regent Park, backs more public funds10/13/2006 Editorial: Schools need cash not budget cuts By: Editorial - Toronto Star10/11/2006 School board overseer named By: TESS KALINOWSKI AND KERRY GILLESPIE - Toronto Star10/11/2006 School board loses budgetary powers to appointed official By: KAREN HOWLETT - Globe and Mail10/11/2006 Burlington mayor to lead new super transit agency By: JEFF GRAY - Globe and Mail10/10/2006 Editorial: No place for fees in public schools By: Opinion-Editorial - Toronto Star10/6/2006 T.O.'s vital signs great, but ... By: ROYSON JAMES - Toronto Star9/29/2006 Success story at Regent Park By: CAROL GOAR - Toronto Star9/15/2006 Defiant school trustees refuse to back cuts By: TESS KALINOWSKI - Toronto Star9/14/2006 School test scores rise By: LOUISE BROWN - Toronto Star GTA students improve provincial math, reading results `We need to do better in Toronto': Public board official9/14/2006 Tough choices to balance budget By: TESS KALINOWSKI - Toronto Star9/14/2006 Small steps score big on Ontario tests By: CAROLINE ALPHONSO - Globe and Mail9/11/2006 Class size caps called `misguided' By: TESS KALINOWSKI Provincial policy causing havoc in city schools: Trustees Board fears losing students to Catholic, private schools8/31/2006 Don't axe schools, parents tell board By: TESS KALINOWSKI - Toronto Star They fear cuts to ease deficit would force closures, threaten programs, kill jobs8/30/2006 School cuts inevitable, board chair admits By: TESS KALINOWSKI - Toronto Star Trustees must present budget tomorrow Public board will meet today to discuss deficit8/30/2006 Ontario to unveil plan to attract new students By: Canadian Press - Globe and Mail8/29/2006 Rhetoric heats up on school cuts By: TESS KALINOWSKI - Toronto Star Minister's remarks latest volley Trustees cast in `unfair' light: Chair8/29/2006 Time to sing from same song sheet By: GERRI GERSHON - Toronto Star8/29/2006 Editorial: All school boards not created equal By: Opinion-Editorial - Toronto Star8/29/2006 School boards struggle with budget dilemmas By: KAREN HOWLETT - Globe and Mail8/28/2006 Behind the school budget crisis By: CAROL GOAR - Toronto Star8/18/2006 Reducing report cards merits debate: Pupatello By: DANIEL GIRARD - Toronto Star Minister says parents prefer `one-on-one' Aims to get them more involved in system8/17/2006 Teachers want number of report cards reduced By: CAROLINE ALPHONSO - Globe and Mail8/16/2006 Fewer report cards suggested By: TESS KALINOWSKI - Toronto Star Three a year is one too many, teachers say Fall said to be too premature to assess a student 8/1/2006 Fewer students taking phys. ed after grade 9; study. By: MATTHEW CHUNG CANADIAN PRESS - Reprinted in Toront7/23/2006 Ending our mediocrity By: Paul Bedford - Toronto Star7/19/2006 Secret education success story By: CAROL GOAR - Toronto Star7/18/2006 Culture + learning = success By: TESS KALINOWSKI - Toronto Star Big dreams. Strange land. So many languages. How do teachers connect with students and parents when most of them are newcomers to Canada?7/18/2006 Students keeping it real By: TESS KALINOWSKI - Toronto Star Landmark anti-bullying program uses scenarios that many teenagers confront in high school Role-playing on camera teaches teens to defuse potentially violent situations7/4/2006 Hard truth in report card By: JIM COYLE - Toronto Star6/29/2006 Toronto's school board plans drastic cuts By: TESS KALINOWSKI - Toronto Star Building closings, staff layoffs eyed 2007-'08 budget runs $84M short6/5/2006 Special-ed system gets $50 million infusion Teacher training, wait lists are priorities But more services5/31/2006 New help for high schoolers at risk of dropping out By: LOUISE BROWN - Toronto Star Early credits aim to spark Grade 9s Reports to outline students' challenges5/25/2006 Crisis still with us By: MARK SLONE - Globe and Mail5/14/2006 `Dropout Doctors' woo back forgotten students By: LOUISE BROWN - Toronto Star 49,000 in Ontario quit each year Landmark study profiles teens4/10/2006 Kids at schools with librarians do better, study suggests By: Canadian Press12/28/2005 Smile, students, you're on camera By: Louise Brown - Toronto Star Devices hailed for keeping schools safe - But they aren't constantly monitored12/20/2005 Guiding kids to read By: Tess Kalinowski - Toronto Star12/15/2005 School board to gather data on race By: Louise Brown - Toronto Star12/14/2005 Dropouts face loss of driver's licences By: Caroline Alphonso - Globe and Mail12/14/2005 Ontario to deny licences to dropouts By: Rob Ferguson - Toronto Star Aims to keep teens in school until 18 - Critics call proposed law `hare-brained' 12/9/2005 Ontario aims to cut dropout rate in half By: Canadian Press - Toronto Star12/9/2005 Premier aims to slash dropout rate By: Rob Ferguson - Toronto Star12/5/2005 Parents, schools fight $1.8B special needs war By: Helen Henderson - Toronto Star12/1/2005 Angry parents blast suspensions By: Tess Kalinowski - Toronto Star11/24/2005 Schools hand out tougher discipline By: Tess Kalinowski - Toronto Star11/8/2005 Students demand more say in schools By: Tess Kalinowski - Toronto Star Young trustees want a chance to vote11/1/2005 Safe Schools Act helps gangs recruit, NDP says By: Canadian Press10/24/2005 A novel way to teach writing By: Tess Kalinowski - Toronto Star Program geared to what kids read10/20/2005 Turning the page on literacy By: Louise Brown - Toronto Star Scarborough school's Grade 3 readers make huge leap10/20/2005 62% in Grades 3 and 6 meet standard By: Canadian Press Upward trend still holds, but Grade 9s still failing to reach expectations in applied math 10/20/2005 Students show improved scores on Ontario tests By: Caroline Alphonso - Globe and Mail But elementary-school results fall well short of target set by government10/6/2005 Surplus should go to education: McGuinty By: Canadian Press10/6/2005 Province urged to hire more phys-ed teachers By: Canadian Press10/5/2005 Program aims to stem loss of new teachers By: Canadian Press9/28/2005 The Pathways chance By: Globe and Mail9/23/2005 Low enrolment could shut schools By: Tess Kalinowski - Toronto Star Trustees consider closings, mergers. Summit tomorrow to discuss options 9/7/2005 Province to post results of effort to cut class sizes By: Canadian Press9/4/2005 New programs will cut dropout rate, says premier By: Canadian Press9/3/2005 Province launches bold assault on soaring high school dropout rate By: Tess Kalinowski - Toronto Star8/11/2005 Schools moving towards privatization, say teachers By: Canadian Press5/27/2005 Province pledges $61M for textbooks By: Canadian Press - Toronto Star5/24/2005 Is it any easier? You do the math By: Louise Brown - Toronto Star5/18/2005 Province aims to keep teens in school By: Louise Brown - Toronto Star2/16/2005 Schools Brace for Labour Unrest By: Louise Brown and Tess Kalinowsi- Toronto Star8/18/2004 Toronto Board Gets $27M Boost By: Theresa Boyle and Tess Kalinowski- Toronto Star Biggest winner as province allots funds for needy students Education minister says he's optimistic on labour front 8/17/2004 Teachers Warn They're Prepped for Showdown By: Theresa Boyle and Tess Kalinowski- Toronto Star Extra time a key issue, union head says. "We have set the bar high" in bargaining8/16/2004 Hello. Here's a Pencil By: Nicholas Keung- Toronto Star Findoing out where they belng is first test facing students. Some newcomers are well ahead and others far behind
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