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Province Offers New Deal To Education Unions

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The Ford Government says they’ve made reasonable concessions at the negotiating table in the ongoing fight with teachers and support staff.

During the negotiation process, the Government tabled proposals with each of the teacher unions, which included substantive moves on lower than proposed but not lower than on the ground class sizes, support for students’ unique learning needs, full-day kindergarten, as well as reasonable proposals on merit-based hiring and compensation.

The Province also announced a policy to give parents the ability to opt their children out of the mandatory online courses required for graduation.

The Government is now is calling on the unions to cancel future strikes during this period to allow for good faith bargaining.

Education Minister Stephen Lecce adds the number of students in classrooms will drop from 25 to 23.

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Lecce Grilled Over Class Sizes

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The Ford government is being taken to task for hiding the results of a public consultation on education.

A majority of Ontario parents don’t approve of larger class sizes.

But Education Minister Stephen Lecce says they do have the smallest class sizes for the youngest kids.

“It is the voices of parents and students that has guided our government in this negotiation,” says Lecce.

“That is precisely why we have confirmed that we will keep classes low in this province for students. In fact, under our government, we are keeping classrooms the smallest in the nation for the early years.”

The class size information was released at a Labor Relations Board hearing on Tuesday by the Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association, accusing the government of negotiating in bad faith.

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Report Indicates Large Class Sizes Don’t Impact Student Performance

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A Fraser Institute report indicates there’s no evidence to support that larger class sizes in high schools hurt student performance.

The organization looked at national test results.

The right-wing think tank says Quebec and Alberta schools with roughly 28 to 30 students per class outperform Ontario schools.

The Ford government did consider allowing an average of 28 students per class, only to settle on 22-and-a-half just before the start of the school year.