February 16, 2021
By Nate Smelle
Last year at this time, teachers and education workers represented by Ontario’s four major education unions were engaged in a province-wide job action in protest of the Ford government’s cuts to education. The issues provoking the withdrawal of services, as well as a series of rotating strikes included but were not limited to: increasing class sizes; mandatory e-learning; fixing and making schools safe; teacher and education worker job losses; and, violence in schools.
Recognizing how over the past year the COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally altered teaching and learning in Ontario, in the coming weeks