MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. –
Leaders of a forum on Florida’s new standards for teaching Black history encouraged parents to let their discontent be heard by showing up at local school board meetings, sending feedback to the state’s Department of Education and voting.
Hundreds of lawmakers, teachers and parents crowded into Antioch Baptist Church in Miami Gardens on Thursday night to discuss the new policy, which has drawn harsh criticism for requiring teachers to instruct middle-school students that enslaved people “developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”
But Florida Education Commissioner Manny…
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Ontario’s Education Minister Stephen Lecce says his staff will review the allegations of a principal who died by suicide months after launching a lawsuit against the Toronto District School Board for allegedly failing to support him when he was accused of racism during a professional training session. Lecce speaks to journalists at the Queen’s Park Legislature in Toronto on Monday December 5, 2022. Photo by Chris Young /The Canadian Press…
Back to school season is around the corner, and for one Winnipegger the coming weeks will mark a return to the province’s biggest school division, with nearly 30,000 students.
Matt Henderson, an educator who has worked in the city for about 15 years, will take on the chief superintendent and CEO role for the Winnipeg School Division this fall, replacing Pauline Clarke, who is retiring on Sept. 6.
Henderson comes to WSD from the Seven Oaks School Division, where he’s the assistant superintendent. In the past, he was the founding principal of the Maples Met School, an alternative learning program…
The minister of education has not yet read gender-identity policies passed by education councils that undo changes he made, and it’s still not clear which version of the policy will be in effect when the school year starts next month.
In the spring, New Brunswick’s Minister of Education Bill Hogan introduced changes to Policy 713 on sexual orientation and gender identity. Hogan said the policy now bans teachers and staff from using a child under 16’s chosen name and pronoun unless a parent consents.
A few weeks later, two anglophone and two francophone district education councils passed motions to effectively …
Yesterday, the report by Prof. Ken Muir CBE “Putting Learners at the Centre: Towards a Future Vision for Scottish Education” was published, alongside the Scottish Government’s response to the report and its recommendations. The recommendations are all either fully accepted, broadly accepted or accepted in principle.
The headlines, of course, are on what is to become of Scotland’s national agencies. in summary:
The Scottish Qualifications Authority is to be replaced by a new body with the same role, provisionally called “Qualifications Scotland” – which will have a governance structure which allows for more participation by pupils, teachers and other stakeholders.…
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A former Hastings Prince Edward School Board director of education will be the subject of an Ontario College of Teachers disciplinary hearing.
Sean Monteith left the director’s position in March of 2021 without explanation after being hired two years earlier.
Monteith is accused by the disciplinary committee of the Ontario College of Teachers of not keeping required records, signing documents he knew to be untrue and charging the school board for expenses in violation of the board’s policies.
Those alleged expenses involved travel, flights and hotels for himself and others.
According to…
The Scottish Government recently consulted on a (longstanding) proposal that the functions of education appeal committees (hearing exclusion appeals, and most placing request appeals) be transferred to the Health and Education Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland.
With the assistance of colleagues, I prepared a response on behalf of My Rights, My Say. The edited highlights of the response are below.
The Tribunals (Scotland) Act 2014 provides that the Scottish Tribunals operate within a framework which ensures certain standards and principles which are beneficial to parties (especially appellants). For example, Section 3 sets out a requirement to uphold the…
At the end of November, the short-life working group on Co-ordinated Support Plans (CSPs) released its Final Report. The purpose of the report was to identify barriers to the effective implementation of the CSP legislation and to make recommendations to support progress.
The report begins, as these things often do, with a statement of principles. In this case, we are reminded that “Scottish education is based on the belief that education is a human right and that all children and young people should be supported to reach their full potential.” The Scottish Government’s intention to incorporate the UN Convention on…