#BREAKING: At today's presser Doug Ford is still trying to claim his #PaidSickDays plan is "best in North America". It isn't even close. We've said it before, we'll say it again: 16 US states have LEGISLATED, PERMANENT & EMPLOYER-PAID #PaidSickDaysNow. #OnPoli #COVID19Ontario

Yesterday, Ontario Educators were informed that the Math Proficiency Test is May 3. May 3rd is Monday Ross Romano @sflecce No time to prep. No idea what's on the test. No idea when they can register. No access to the portal. 허장영 planning at its best #onpoli otcc.ca

Please take a moment to add your voice to the efforts to #SavePeel. Peel Region needs paid sick days, priority for vaccinations, protection for workers and equitable health care. Click to send a message: act.newmode.social/711523640t

Today, Romana Siddiqui Dr. Amit Arya Sabina Vohra-Miller Gail Bannister-Clarke & other #SavePeel advocates held a press conf to demand: -seamless #PaidSickDays -priority vaccination -protect’n for workers -equitable healthcare to protect the ppl of Peel. Please follow SavePeel & join their call. #onpoli

Normalize saying “Ss marginalized by the education system” instead of “marginalized students” #LanguageMatters

Please join SavePeel & SURJ Toronto - Defund Toronto Police at 7pm tonight to send a message to Peel PC MPPs. #SavePeel #onpoli #COVID19ON Register: tinyurl.com/SavePeelZap

The message has been consistent from families and educators, the hybrid model doesn’t work. #osstf #etfo #yrdsb #onted #onpoli

The #HybridHurtsKids team at ETFO Peel PAC met again to update our plan. Our board did the right thing by eliminating the broad implementation of Hybrid in elementary. However, Special Education students and workers have endured the Hybrid Model all year. It must stop. #OntEd

🚨BREAKING: Parent Committee Chairs from 76 public school boards call on Ford to halt plans for permanent online learning. The “proposal may be promoting the online learning option to the detriment of student well-being & undermining the integrity of our ed’n system.” #onted

Wow. This 🧵👇

Opening schools for TWO weeks does what? It increases the odds of a 4th surge, it puts teachers, who are not vaccinated or may have a one shot recently, at increased risk and ensures we have a driver of transmission before the government's surprising reasonable opening plan. 🙄🤨

For Latinx & Spanish-speaking students/families 📣 This clinic is an extraordinary effort of Latin American COVID19 Task Force to get Latinx folks protected (7x more likely to get COVID). #GetYourVacuna en Español. Tomorrow and Friday at 32 65 Weston Rd. Share 👇🏽 with students Toronto District School Board Toronto Catholic District School Board!

If you haven’t already, please head to supportourschools.ca to tell #onted school boards that you won’t accept hybrid learning in #onted. Then remind others to do the same. #NoHybrid b/c #HybridHurtsKids.

More talk of learning conditions less talk of learning loss: What do you expect students to learn when their teacher is split across two classrooms, burnt out, neglected, and overworked. Teaching conditions are learning conditions.

"It certainly doesn’t help that during periods of school closure, our govt has made little effort to make classrooms safer. They haven’t meaningfully reduced class sizes or improved ventilation, or impl'd rigorous & workable test & trace programs." #onted thestar.com/news/gta/2021/…

Thank you for this thread, First Evening Star. Please read it.

The horrific irony is that the Canadian government is sending "thoughts and prayers" after the remains of 215 Indigenous children were found at a residential school…all while continuing to fight residential school survivors in court.

Ontario's top doctor to retire and be replaced with Dr. Kieran Moore cbc.ca/news/canada/to… #onpoli

Please sign, please share, please RT: #onpoli #COVID19ON

AMAZING NEWS: The team The Local Magazine has introduced the Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) Tracker—a citizen-powered tool for anonymous reporting of rapid antigen test results for Toronto students. RT to spread the word and to show them how much you appreciate their work & generosity.