Ontario is staring down a teacher shortage as retirements and student enrolment are both on the rise, and the Ministry of Education expects the situation will start to get even worse in 2027.
An empty teacher's desk is pictured at the front of an empty classroom on Sept. 5, 2014.
"These factors are projected to result in a growing gap between the number of teachers needed and the number of teachers available. This gap is expected to widen beginning in 2027." A spokesperson for Education Minister Jill Dunlop said in a statement that the government has introduced a number of measures, including halving processing timelines for domestic and international applicants, allowing second-year teaching candidates to work as supply teachers, and replacing seniority-based hiring with a merit-based system for quicker recruitment of staff.
It may be time to review that program, said Karen Littlewood, president of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation. The unions are also wondering why the troubling prediction that shortages will get worse in three years was not conveyed to them. The briefing document says that in particular there is an "acute shortage" of French-as-a-second-language teachers in Ontario, "as in other provinces and territories." Demand is rising for French immersion and extended French programs, the document says.
The province and the federal government have put more than $23 million toward a French Teacher Recruitment and Retention Strategy since 2021-22, MacKay said, and it includes efforts to recruit more internationally trained French teachers. Tim Walz and JD Vance on Tuesday went after each other's running mates in a vice-presidential debate that opened with a discussion of burgeoning domestic and international troubles.The Shopping Trends team is independent of the journalists at CTV News. We may earn a commission when you use our links to shop.
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