Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce says the plan will include additional resources and training for staff, adding there is more the government can do
Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce speaks during a news conference at Queen's Park, in Toronto, on June 9, 2020.Ontario’s education minister says next week he will announce a new plan to reopen the province’s schools in September.
He says the plan will include additional resources and training for staff, adding there is more the government can do.Lecce says the province could not have announced the plan sooner because COVID-19 case numbers have changed over the past month. School boards and teachers’ unions have said they need additional resources to adapt to the pandemic.
The head of a school board west of Toronto says the province needs to provide more funding to do the job right.
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