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The Safe Schools Act is an Ontario bill, implemented in 2000 to provide a definitive set of regulations for punishments that must be issued for students. The bill is often referred to as a zero-tolerance policy, however "the presence of mitigating factors in the Act and school board policies precludes it from being strictly defined as a zero tolerance regime". [1]
Academic dishonesty, academic misconduct, academic fraud and academic integrity are related concepts that refer to various actions on the part of students that go against the expected norms of a school, university or other learning institution. Definitions of academic misconduct are usually outlined in institutional policies.
The former Chief Justice of Canada Beverley McLachlin once referred to this as an early form of freedom of religion in Canada. [1] Section 93 of the Constitution Act, 1867 awards jurisdiction over education to the provincial governments, with a few exceptions. Catholics have denominational school rights in Ontario.
Upper Canada's Grammar School Act of 1807 provided the first public funds for schools in what would become Ontario. Eight schools were opened. [12] 1804: St. Johns Common School in St. Johns was one of Ontario's first schools. 1816: The Act of 1816 authorized local trustees to decide on hiring criteria for teachers. [13] 1823: A General Board ...
Grade 9 (math tested in the first year of secondary school) and; Grade 10 (literacy tested as a graduation requirement, known as the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test). For students with special education needs, some accommodations that are consistent with regular classroom assessment practices are permitted on the provincial tests.
The Putting Students First Act (also known by its former name, Bill 115) (the Act) is an act passed by the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.The law allows the provincial government to set rules that local school boards must adhere to when negotiating with local unions and to impose a collective agreement on the board, employee bargaining agent, and the employees of the board represented by the ...
The Ontario sex education curriculum controversy refers to the debates over reforms of the sex education curriculum in the province of Ontario during the 2010s. [1]In 2015, the government of Ontario, then led by Kathleen Wynne, introduced a new sex ed curriculum, updating it for the first time since 1998 and including topics such as sharing explicit content online, sexual orientation, and ...
Analyses of SLAPP tactics and suggested reforms to civil procedures and legislation have been released by the Ontario Attorney-General, [13] the Uniform Law Conference of Canada, [14] individual academics [15] [16] and the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association. [17] [18] [19]