Education

Deserving local students receive generous family legacy scholarship awards
Three local philanthropists, Chris Handley, Mike Perry, and Phong Tan have demonstrated their unwavering commitment to ensuring access to quality… Continue reading “Deserving local students receive generous family legacy scholarship awards”

Lack of Early Childhood Educators affecting daycare space access
Education Minister Stephen Lecce and local MPP Laurie Scott took have been promoting Kawartha Lakes daycare facilities, touting the joint federal-provincial plan they claimed would create 86,000 new daycare spaces across Ontario by 2026.

Engineering event at Weldon to celebrate National Engineering Month
To celebrate National Engineering Month, an engineering challenge at I.E. Weldon was held today to allow youth to experience various aspects of problems professional engineers and technologists/technicians strive to solve in their profession.

EQAO scores mostly improve in TLDSB
In late October, the Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO) released the results from the 2021-2022 testing for both the province and school boards.

CUPE members can no longer make ends meet
'I have three jobs so I can support my children and myself'
“I have three jobs so I can support my children and myself,” Dunham said.

School board races competitive
In 2018, voters in Kawartha Lakes had little opportunity to change their Trillium Lakelands District School Board trustees, with four of five local races featuring only one candidate who was ultimately acclaimed.

Director hoping for labour peace
Wes Hahn, the director of education for the Trillium Lakelands District School Board, is very hopeful that after three school years disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic that this year will be a quiet year for staff and students with a minimum of interruptions, particularly on the labour front.