Kitchener high school placed in lockdown as police investigate weapons call

Grand River Collegiate Institute has been placed in lockdown Monday morning, while Crestview Public School, Chicopee Hills Public School and Stanley Park Public School are all in hold and secure as ...

Lockdown at Kitchener high school lifted after police investigate swatting call

Police say a lockdown at Grand River Collegiate Institute in Kitchener, Ont., on Monday morning has been lifted after ...
BayToday.ca

Ontario education groups warn against scrapping elected school trustees

A growing chorus of Ontario education voices is pushing back against what they describe as unilateral governance reform after Minister Paul Calandra floated eliminating elected trustees. The coalition ...

Ontario elementary teachers to get spending accounts for classroom supplies starting this fall, Doug Ford says

The premier made the announcement Wednesday morning at a North Etobicoke school, alongside the education and finance ministers in advance of the March 26 provincial budget.
The Waterloo Region Record

Swatting call targets Grand River Collegiate

Waterloo Regional Police said a swatting call sparked a lockdown Grand River Collegiate Institute and a hold and secure at four other elementary schools in Kitchener.
Corvallis Gazette-Times

After 6½ heated hours, police called, Letitia Carson, Cheldelin to close next year

After a tense, 6½-hour meeting that stretched into early Friday morning, Nov. 14 — ending with a call to the police — the Corvallis school board formally OK’d a plan to close Letitia Carson Elementary ...