48 h. ago Calgary students stage walkouts, protests over impact of looming teachers’ strike

Dozens of high school students staged a walkout at several Calgary high schools on Friday to show their concerns about the impact a teachers strike could have on their education.

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3 d. ago Kids are all right — teen who went viral at Alberta Next panel vows to use platform for good

Evan Li, a Calgary high school student, said he will continue to advocate for better teaching conditions

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4 d. ago After education budget cuts, LeBel announces leeway for school hirings

Sonia LeBel said the province wants the rules to allow school service centres to "manage their resources without compromising services to students and while respecting their budgets."

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5 d. ago Texas teacher sorry for feeding sick kitten to classroom snake, district says

The Alvord Independent School District insists the animal wasn’t devoured in front of students

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5 d. ago ‘The world is waiting’: Indigenous students absorb cultural history at Manitoba school

Orange Shirt Day only comes once a year, but students at Sergeant Tommy Prince School at Brokenhead Ojibway Nation learn about their cultural history year-round.

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6 d. ago UVic rolls out naloxone kits, AEDs in residences in wake of fatal overdose

As UVic students settle into a new school year, there are signs everywhere of lessons learned from last year’s overdose death of a first-year student

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6 d. ago Alberta youth charged after vehicle slams into high school in Hinton

An Alberta youth is facing charges in relation to the forced evacuation of a Hinton high school Friday after a vehicle collided with the building. Just before 3 p.m., officers in Hinton received a report of a vehicle that crashed into Harry Collinge High School on Friday, said RCMP in a media release. Students and […]

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6 d. ago School support workers urge SD8 to reinvest surplus into student services

NELSON — The Kootenay Lakes School District No. 8 $4.4 million budget surplus should be reinvested to strengthen and increase direct student supports, says the district’s school support workers. CUPE 748, the union representing over 300 support workers in SD8 public schools, says the surplus is an opportunity to help students, families and communities in […]

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6 d. ago Saskatchewan apologizes to former students who faced abuse at boarding school

Premier Scott Moe says the province has also agreed to pay $40 million to former students of the Île-à-la-Crosse Boarding School and their families.

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7 d. ago Burlington man rides 4,000 kms for Abbey, his late partner who died from cancer

Talk about a labour of love. Burlington’s Callum Norris is riding 4,000 kilometres across Canada to honour his late partner, Abbey Maguire, who died from cancer at the age of 27 in March. The bike trek will also raise money for Abbey’s Foundation (abbeysfoundation.ca) that provides annual scholarships for students from Burlington Central High School […]

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1 week ago Teacher accused of stinking up South Carolina school with fart spray

A teaching assistant has been arrested for allegedly spraying a South Carolina school with a substance that smells like poop, resulting in students getting sick and causing tens of thousands of dollars worth of damage. Alexander Paul Robertson Lewis, 32, of Florence, S.C., is suspected of showering the substance throughout West Florence High School between […]

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1 week ago Ontario dad arrested after ‘dangerously’ driving at students on school field

A parent is facing charges after “driving dangerously” through a high school field and towards students in Oshawa, Ont., last week.

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1 week ago Dozens of Alberta students play hooky, rally for teachers as strike deadline looms

Dozens of Alberta high school students staged protests in Edmonton on Monday to show their support of the teachers' contract demands.

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1 week ago Nova Scotia mandates O Canada in schools after students’ push for patriotism

Education minister acts after dozens of Halifax high school students say they were missing out on hearing the national anthem each morning

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2 w. ago Teen visiting Delta on 'party bus' seriously injured in targeted shooting

Police say the youth, who is not from Delta, was part of a group of high school students from another Lower Mainland community.

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2 w. ago Alberta to use notwithstanding clause on its 3 transgender laws: memo

The laws establish rules for students changing their names or pronouns in school, ban transgender girls from taking part in some sports and limit gender-affirming health care.

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2 w. ago Support gaps leave Thames Valley special needs students out of school

"There is no timeline for even a discussion about how to support them,” a source said.

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2 w. ago Support gaps leave some Thames Valley special needs students at home: Source

"There is no timeline for even a discussion about how to support them,” a source said.

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2 w. ago Former students and victims of disgraced football coach sue school division

Three victims of a former high school football coach - who was convicted of sexual assaulting student players - are taking legal action.

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2 w. ago Three unhurt after plane crashes beside Scarborough school’s football field

A trio of travellers is lucky to be alive after their single-engine plane crashed beside a football field at a Scarborough high school. Dog walkers and students at Monarch Park, west of Coxwell and Felstead Aves., were craning their necks on Tuesday and and climbing hills to get a look at a crashed Piper PA-28-140. […]

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