By Pepper Parr
August 13th, 2024
BURLINGTON, ON
Ontario has reached a tentative agreement with the associations representing school boards and the associations representing principals and vice-principals on the employment terms and conditions for principals and vice-principals in publicly funded schools.
The hope is that the agreement will provide stability needed to support student achievement.
The principal sets the tone and the cultural of a school. The good ones are great and they make a big difference. But they are not all great.
The memorandum of settlement is between the Ontario government, the associations representing principals and vice-principals (Ontario Principals’ Council, Catholic Principals’ Council of Ontario and Association des directions et directions adjointes des écoles franco-ontariennes) and the four associations representing school boards (Ontario Public School Boards’ Association, Ontario Catholic School Trustees’ Association, Association franco-ontarienne des conseils scolaires catholiques and Association des conseils scolaires des écoles publiques de l’Ontario).
The term of the agreement is four years, applying to 2023 to 2027.
Ontario’s commitment to stability in the classroom ensures that students benefit from the government’s back-to-basics agenda, which is focused on what matters most: boosting reading, writing and math skills in Ontario schools to prepare students for the careers of tomorrow.
Principals and vice-principals in Ontario are not unionized. Over the next several weeks, all parties will be undergoing their separate approval processes with respect to the tentative settlement. Ontario has successfully reached central agreements with all 9 of its education labour partners, namely teacher federations and education workers.
