Afghan women ask Canada for education and accountability
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Ahead of the second anniversary of the Taliban takeover of Kabul, Afghan women are asking Canadians to join them in protecting gains in girls’ education and resisting legitimacy for the terrorist group.
Meanwhile, Ottawa won’t say when Canadian development groups will be able to launch projects in Afghanistan.
“It’s a complete humanitarian and human-rights crisis that’s been going on for two years,” said Murwarid Ziayee, a senior director with Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan.
The group is part of a coalition planning to march on Parliament Hill on Sunday afternoon as part of…
Cursive writing to be reintroduced in Ontario schools
Cursive is making a comeback.
Relegated in 2006 to an optional piece of learning in Ontario elementary schools, cursive writing is set to return as a mandatory part of the curriculum starting in September.
Education Minister Stephen Lecce said it is about more than just teaching students how to sign their own name.
“The research has been very clear that cursive writing is a critical life skill in helping young people to express more substantively, to think more critically, and ultimately, to express more authentically,” he said in an interview.
“That’s what we’re trying to do, to create a very…
UCDSB details student impact from continued Indigenous Education
The Upper Canada District School Board says they are creating meaningful and personal land acknowledgments to work with Indigenous partners to identify the traditional territory each school is situated on, as well as implementing rich programming that offers Indigenous students the opportunity to form deeper connections with their own culture and share it with their non-Indigenous peers, as part of their commitment to Truth and Reconciliation.
The impact of the actions being taken within the UCDSB was front and center during the Board of Trustees meeting, held June 7th, as Ward 11 (AMBE) Trustee Patty Francis shared her comments on…
Sask. school division says province ‘skews the numbers’ on education funding
Education funding has been a highly debated topic in Saskatchewan, and one school division took the time to fact-check the province’s claims, addressing their repeated message of “record funding.”
Greater Saskatoon Catholic Schools (GSCS) sent a message to parents and caregivers saying they’ve been reviewing the provincial funding since it was announced in March.
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“Our initial optimism faded when faced with the reality that school divisions in Saskatchewan—and therefore the students and families we serve—would not benefit from the province’s good financial fortune,” read the letter.
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NDP wouldn’t make big changes to education tax rebates if elected, but out-of-province billionaires are out
Education property tax rebates would stick around under a Manitoba NDP government, the party leader Wab Kinew is promising, but the number of recipients will shrink.
Kinew told reporters on Monday his party wouldn’t make major changes to one of the PC government’s signature pledges.
“I don’t think you’ll see us do anything dramatically different, except when it comes to billionaires outside of the province,” Kinew said.
“To hear that some of the richest people in the world have been getting $100,000 checks from this PC government while the Manitobans are tightening their belts; we’re calling out that that’s the…
Frustrated and underfunded: Sask. educators and parents decry education budget
Frustrations are mounting as educators in Saskatchewan continue to call for more support from the province, but it’s not just teachers voicing their concerns.
“How can you possibly say that you’re doing a good job in educating, that you’re investing in education properly? There’s not really any way to politics to make it look good,” said Dr. Brady Bouchard, a family physician in North Battleford who is concerned for his kids.
Bouchard said he’s heard from school divisions that have had to cut 80 positions over the last five years, and schools that have classrooms with 41 kids in them,…
Alberta to boost career-focused programming for Grade 7-12 students
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Alberta is increasing access to career-related training for students in grades 7 to 12, the latest move from the UCP aimed at bringing a greater vocational focus to the education sector.
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Education Minister Adriana LaGrange said at a Monday news conference the province is implementing several recommendations from a task force convened last summer to review career education for middle- and high-school students, and evaluate how best to prepare students to transition from K-12 education to a job or post-secondary studies.
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Those recommendations include boosting access to off-campus education, developing and funding training for…
Afghan women talk about 500 days of being denied education by the Taliban
Another school year is underground in Afghanistan, but missing from classrooms across the country are girls and young women.
It has now been more than 500 days since the Taliban banned female students first from secondary schools, then later from universities in August 2021.
The Taliban have imprisoned the most famous supporter of girls’ education, Matiullah Wesa. For years, Wesa has been promoting the importance of education in southern Afghanistan. Despite international outcry including the UN, EU, and the US, he is still in prison.
At the beginning of their rule, the Taliban cited Islam as the reason for preventing…