Hundreds of Ottawa school teachers and staff are busing to Toronto to join colleagues from around the province at a rally at Queen's Park Saturday to protest expected job cuts. "If you need savings, you don't do it on the backs of children," said Elizabeth Kettle, Ottawa's local president of the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario. Kettle said that teachers have been bracing for bad news since the Progressive Conservative government announced sweeping changes to classroom sizes in mid-March. This week's memo to school boards suggests the job cuts would come through attrition — mostly retirements — over the next four years. The memo also anticipates a drop in province-wide enrolment, even though Ottawa school boards have seen an overall increase in enrolment in recent years.

Source: CBC News April 06, 2019 07:52 UTC