Consultation: Education in Ontario

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The Provincial Government is seeking input on a wide range of issues related to education. Many of these are of interest to ECOO members – technology, coding, cell phones,  etc.

From the website:

Feedback from these consultations will help shape decisions in the following areas:

  1. Improving student performance in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM)
  2. Preparing students with needed job skills, such as skilled trades and coding
  3. Improving provincial standardized testing
  4. Ensuring students graduate with important life skills, including financial literacy
  5. Managing the use of technology in classrooms, such as cell phones
  6. Building a new age-appropriate Health and Physical Education curriculum that includes subjects like mental health, sexual health education and the legalization of cannabis
  7. Developing the first-ever Parents’ Bill of Rights

Further details are available on the following Ontario.ca pages.

Français: https://www.ontario.ca/fr/page/au-service-des-parents
English: https://www.ontario.ca/page/for-the-parents