Annual literacy test is postponed as an investigation with external consultants is ongoing to restore services as soon as possible.
evening that as a result of Friday’s incident, remote learning is still offline and that the annual Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test, will not be held this week as planned. “Our IT Services team continues to prioritize restoring critical systems to support school and business operations. This work has been ongoing since Saturday and will continue until we are able to restore all services,” the DDSB said.
While the school board has said it reported the incident to police, the board did not share what the “cyber incident” was. Parents are being asked to send a hard copy of emergency contact information with their child, while schools still don’t have full access to phones and emails. Attendance will be taken manually and the safe arrival program will be suspended temporarily.
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