TORONTO Schools in four other Ontario regions will be returning to in-person learning next week, the government confirms. In a statement released Thursday morning, Education Minister Stephen Lecce said that kids within Ottawa, Middlesex-London, and Southwestern and Eastern Ontario’s public health units will return to the classroom on Monday. On the advice of the Chief Medical Officer of Health, with the support of the local Medical Officers of Health, and with the introduction of additional layers of protection, 280,000 students in four public health regions will return to class on Monday, February 1,” Lecce said. According to the province, this means that 520,000 students are now able to continue their education in class.
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An anticipated discussion on making mask-wearing mandatory for all Windsor-Essex public school children didn’t happen as intended on Tuesday night.
As a result of a majority vote by members of the Greater Essex County District School Board, the issue was removed from the board meeting’s agenda on the grounds that it had already been discussed earlier this year.
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Kingsville-based GECDSB trustee Julia Burgess tried to bring up the subject with a notice of motion which was ruled out of order.