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Source: La Presse Daphné Cameron

Les élèves du primaire et du secondaire pourraient bientôt se retrouver sur les bancs d’école certains week-ends. Québec veut modifier le calendrier pédagogique afin d’accorder davantage de flexibilité aux institutions pour les aider à lutter contre le décrochage scolaire. Les fédérations d’enseignants s’interrogent déjà sur la faisabilité d’une telle [...]

Source: Joe Klein TIME

A remarkable thing happened in New York recently: the state legislature, in effect, turned down the chance to win $700 million in federal money. No one does that, except extremely conservative Southern governors (who inevitably relent and take the money) — oh, and occasionally teachers’ unions. A few years ago, [...]

February 04, 2010

Louise Brown Education Reporter Parent.central.ca

They took a recorded vote…on whether to take a 10-minute pee break.

They argued for more than an hour about throwing a $345,000 teachers’ day at the Air Canada Centre.

And one trustee was told to watch her words after saying an idea was “about [...]