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Winter, Kirk, The Lindsay Advocate (Lindsay, Ontario: Roderick Benns), 31 Jul 2020     Following closely on the heels of the provincial announcement that local public school buildings were able to re-open on Sept. 8, 2020, the school board tried to assess how many children would actual

Winter, Kirk, The Lindsay Advocate (Lindsay, Ontario: Roderick Benns), 5 Aug 2020     The newly minted director of education for the local public school board presented trustees an update on the board's re-opening plan for Sept. 8, 2020, but faced a multitude of questions from the tru

McQuigge, Michelle, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 6 Aug 2020     Politicians and teachers called on the Ontario government to revisit its back-to-school plan as the premier continued to assert the strategy to reopen classrooms did enough to keep students and staff

Taylor, Jeannine, kawarthaNOW.com ( Jeannine Taylor), 26 Aug 2020     The provincial government announced an immediate payment totalling $381 million to support the reopening of schools in Ontario, in addition to the $900 million in funding already announced. Funding w

Ferguson, Rob, Toronto Star ( TorStar), 26 Aug 2020     Students and staff who get sick when school is back in session won’t need to have a COVID-19 test before returning to class unless they’ve had contact with a confirmed case, Ontario health officials

Winter, Kirk, The Lindsay Advocate (Lindsay, Ontario: Roderick Benns), 18 Aug 2020     The majority of parents opted to have children return to the local public school board, director of education Wes Hahn said at a special meeting of school board. With the high number of students retu

Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 21 Aug 2020     Parents were not the only ones frustrated by the province's back to school plans. While appreciative of the financial support provided to this point, the local public school board trustees sent a let

Winter, Kirk, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 21 Aug 2020     Local public school board trustees approved spending up to $4 million of their financial reserve to cover COVID related expenses for the 2020-2021 school year.

Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 5 Aug 2020     Area school boards tried to start the new school year off as normal as possible, but there was no doubt that things were different when the first bell rang. Families were asked to choose between in-c

Rushowy, Kristin, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 11 Feb 2021     March Break was delayed for almost a month because of the pandemic and was set for April 12-16, 2021 said the province on February 11, 2021.

Winter, Kirk, The Lindsay Advocate (Lindsay, Ontario: Roderick Benns), 23 Aug 2020     The Catholic Principals Council of Ontario, representing administrators working in the local Catholic school board, added their voices to a call by public school board principals represented by the O

Chapados, Sydney, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 13 Aug 2020     As September approached and schools prepared to reopen, there were concerns for children, including the risk they might spread COVID-19, their mental health, abuse in the home, and access to technolo

Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 19 Aug 2020     Trillium Lakelands District School Board and Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board decided to do staggered start days for the first week of school. The PVNCCDSB was looking into the possibility a

Rushowy, Kristin, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 30 Jul 2020     Ontario was the first province in Canada to mandate that students, starting in Grade 4, would wear face masks all day when returning to school in Fall 2020. Younger kids were also encouraged to do so

Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 26 Aug 2020     The provincial government released its outbreak protocol documents, which focused on parent involvement. The document, which was also applicable to health care, child-care centres and long-term care