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Montreal English School Board launching new ‘virtual academy’ this year

As the start of the new school season is less than a week away, a Montreal school board is set to launch a new virtual school for select students who want to take their learning online.

Starting this week, the English Montreal School Board (EMSB) is opening registration for the Quebec Virtual Academy, which will be eligible to certain students who meet specific criteria set by the Ministry of Education.

The online learning model will be open to students with a “long-term medical condition” who can’t attend class for health reasons on the condition they provide a note from a

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New electric vehicle charging stations at WRDSB Education Centre, six public schools

They’re available to the public over summer break from 7 am to 11 pm

The Waterloo Region District School Board (WRDSB) is making it easier for staff and community members to charge their electric vehicles.

Seven new electric vehicle charging stations are now available, including at the WRDSB Education Center on Ardelt Avenue.

The six others are located at various public schools.

The board launched its first charging station at Chicopee Hills Public School in Kitchener in 2019. According to a WRDSB release, the station has helped avoid 8,241 kg of greenhouse gases. “This is like planting 211 trees and

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LAWRENCE JONES: America’s children are facing ‘unprecedented challenges’ as new school year begins

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Fox News host Lawrence Jones broke down the challenges facing America’s education system on “Cross Country.”

LAWRENCE JONES: We’re taking a hard look at the state of our education in this nation. The students in our lives are facing unprecedented challenges as this school year begins.

EX-FAIRFAX COUNTY TEACHER ON GENDER TRANSITION TRAINING: “PARENTS RIGHT ARE BEING OBSTRUCTED LEFT AND RIGHT”

School districts are offering incentives and pay raises to get more teachers into the classroom before August.

School districts are offering incentives and pay raises to get more teachers into the classroom before August.
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We see the consequences of the pandemic in the form of massive

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Educational assistant in NS leaves job due to low wages

Maddie Hickey loved being an educational assistant for the past three and a half years, but she says she is stepping away from the job this fall because of low wages.

“I’m leaving the job this year because education assistants in Nova Scotia are underpaid and I need to think about my family,” Hickey said about her former job as a term education assistant at Riverside Education Center in Lantz, NS

“It’s hard to make ends meet making $15 per hour.”

Hickey worked within the Chignecto Central Regional Center for Education. Educational assistants make hourly wages ranging from $16.10 to

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Montreal school board to create virtual school for vulnerable students

The Quebec government has announced that it is ending online learning for students vulnerable to COVID-19 complications, but that isn’t stopping one school board from going ahead with a virtual option.

In a statement, the Education Ministry said that since the province ended its public-health state of emergency in March, the measures taken to provide distance learning also ended with the 2021-22 school year.

“From now on, it is only through the development and implementation of a pilot project authorized by the Ministry that educational institutions can offer distance education services as part of the general education of young people,”

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Why Shares of JD.Com, TAL Education Group, and Pinduoduo Are Surging This Week

What happened

Shares of several Chinese stocks that trade on US exchanges rose this week after the Chinese government implemented more favorable economic policies and some companies delivered upbeat earnings news.

For the week, shares of Chinese e-commerce giant JD.Com (JD 9.20%) were trading roughly 18.6% higher as of 3:16 pm ET Thursday, according to data provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence. Shares of online tutoring company TAL Education Group (TAL 9.09%) were up by nearly 21%, and shares of agricultural tech company Pinduoduo (PDD 12.44%) were up by close to 31%.

So what

Chinese tech stocks

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Post-secondary education in Quebec should be free: study

Researchers from a Quebec institute are proposing that the provincial government take advantage of its rising revenues to introduce free post-secondary education.

In its study published Wednesday, the Institut de recherche et d’informations socioéconomiques (IRIS) claims that tuition fees no longer have a place as a method of financing universities.

The study’s authors calculate that free tuition in Quebec would cost $1.2 billion, representing less than 0.009 per cent of total spending in the provincial budget.

Samuel Élie-Lesage, a research associate at IRIS and co-author of the study, says that not only is free education financially viable, but high fees

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Schooling Sec. Cardona slams lack of ‘respect’ for lecturers who ‘bent over backwards’ throughout the pandemic

Schooling Secretary Miguel Cardona argued Sunday that the nationwide instructor scarcity is the symptom of an general lack of respect for public college lecturers that began throughout the COVID-19 lockdowns.

“Let’s face it, this instructor scarcity is a symptom of one thing that is been happening for longer than the pandemic and that is a instructor respect concern,” he mentioned on CBS Information’ “Face the Nation.” “Until we’re critical about offering aggressive salaries for our educators, higher working circumstances in order that they’ll proceed to develop.”

“Is it actually nearly salaries?” CBS Information host Margaret Brennan requested Cardona.

“It is

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