Schools are OPEN today and all students are welcome but like a severe weather day, transportation will NOT be running. Staff is expected to report to work. Background All schools will re-open and classes will resume on Monday, January 7, 2013. Regulations have been filed under Bill 115 that impose new terms for collective agreements for all School Board employee groups for the next two years. For more information, please see the news release issued by the Minister of Education on Thursday, January 3. With the new contracts in place, unions will no longer be in a legal strike position. As always, the top priority for the TDSB is to ensure safety of students and maintain the integrity of the learning day. The TDSB is committed to sharing information with school communities as soon as it becomes available. Information will be shared directly with schools, news media and via the Board’s Twitter account: @tdsb
All area schools open after walkout found illegal
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A confusing time confronts parents across the area this morning after a 4 a.m. decision by the Ontario Labour Relations Board that the planned teacher’s “protest” today was actually an illegal strike. The elementary teachers union which had earlier been talking tough about obeying any order to go back to class has said that it will abide by the order. The OLRB decision came after a hearing that lasted almost 13 hours. The challenging part for parents, apart from cancelling their plans and getting kids to school, was unknowns about exactly what the teacher complement would be and the availability of school guards (who had been cancelled in advance of the protest). Toronto schools open Here is the statement on the Toronto school board site:
