The Ford government revealed significant changes to Ontario's education system on Friday, including increased intermediate and high school class sizes, new elementary math and sex-ed curricula and a province-wide ban on cellphones in the classroom. The average class size requirement for secondary Grades 9 to 12 will be adjusted to 28, up from the current average of 22. You can watch that interview below:Ontario Education Minister Lisa Thompson discusses significant changes to the province's education system. "We're not going to back down on these class size projections that protect the quality of education for students." Meanwhile, the average class size for intermediate Grades 4 to 8 will increase to 24.5, up slightly from 23.84.

Source: CBC News March 15, 2019 08:00 UTC