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Teachers, school board still at an impasse over contract talks; letters of placement to serve as stand-in SCOTT BARBER Waterloo Region’s 40,000 public elementary school students will not receive year-end report cards, following a controversial decision by the WRDSB this week. Students were sent home with a letter from the board Tuesday informing parents that there will be no grades this year. Instead, they will get a “letter of placement” for the 2015-16 school year by June 22. In a legal strike position since May 10, the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario began work-to-rule tactics May 18 in an effort to get negotiations – the union has been without a contract since August of last year – moving in their direction. In that vein, teachers will be submitting grades this month, but are refusing to provide comments or to input those marks electronically. Some school boards have taken measures to work around the inputting issue by having administrators – already required to sign off on report cards – take over the task. TEACHERS | 32
Premier Kathleen Wynne toured the new building at the St. Jacobs Farmers’ Market alongside Kitchener-Centre MPP Daiene Vernile June 16.
Audit requested for Woolwich mayor’s election expenses
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STEVE KANNON Add Mayor Sandy Shantz to the list of Woolwich councillors scrutinized for their election expenses. Her financial statement will be under the microscope at a July 2 meeting of the Municipal Election Compliance Audit Committee (MECAC). The group is getting
plenty of work in the township, where Ward 1 Coun. Scott Hahn’s election filing is under review and Ward 3 Coun. Mark Bauman was temporarily removed from council for failing to file. Elmira resident Alan Marshall’s request for a compliance audit of Shantz’s finances came Tuesday afternoon, just before MEEXPENSES | 6
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