On Sunday, Oct. 6, 2019, a tentative agreement was reached between the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), the Government of Ontario and the Council of Trustees Associations. As a result, CUPE has ended its job action and all schools and centres of the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) were able to open on Monday, Oct. 7, 2019, to all students and staff. 

All parties involved will now work to ratify the agreement in the coming days. 

At the TDSB, CUPE represents school support staff, such as caretakers, lunchroom supervisors, office/clerical staff and Designated Early Childhood Educators.

For on-going updates and more information, please visit www.tdsb.on.ca/labour and follow @tdsb on Twitter.

On Wednesday, Sept. 25, the Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO) released achievement results for all Ontario school boards.

For the TDSB, when compared to the province, 2018-19 EQAO results for TDSB students in Grades 3 and 6 show that a higher proportion are performing at or above the provincial standard in five of the six assessments in reading, writing and mathematics. This has been a consistent trend over the past five years, with a higher proportion of TDSB students continually performing at the highest level of EQAO. Improvement is needed for Grade 9 math and this will be the focus of a math action plan. 

To learn more, please read the full news release and visit the TDSB webpage for Achievement and EQAO. 

The Board approved ten projects to submit to the Ministry of Education for funding consideration under the 2019 Capital Priorities program. Provincial government provides capital funding to support new schools, replacement schools, additions and deep retrofits to existing schools. Each school board was asked to submit ten priority projects. 

Read the Board decision.