Caroline Alphonso
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Health Editor for The Globe and Mail. Formerly covered education. Want to share a story idea or tip? DMs open or [email protected]
Toronto
Joined January 2009
RT @krushowy: Exclusive - Toronto school boards are firing teachers who lie about sick days — and using private investigators to catch them….
thestar.com
Toronto school boards, struggling with skyrocketing costs of absenteeism, are turning to private investigators to help uncover sick leave abuse — and, in some cases, firing educators.
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. @picardonhealth on The Decibel: What the spread of bird flu signals about another pandemic.
theglobeandmail.com
A B.C. teen is Canada’s first confirmed case of avian flu in a human
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Opinion: About that word, and about those books. Lawrence Hill writes about how teachers at the London District Catholic School Board have been told to stop teaching his novel, The Book of Negroes
theglobeandmail.com
Any serious high school student knows that even literature that entertains can land with a wallop. It exists to challenge. To ask hard questions. To provoke conversations. And to stir the reader’s...
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Excited to share that I'm joining this expanded health team as health editor. I'll miss covering education, but it's time for a new challenge.
As the debate about the future of Canada's health system heats up, the @globeandmail is expanding its health team. Joining the great @kellygrant1, will be @kkirkup, @alanna_smithh, and @channay. And more to come! .via @AngelaPacienza @rachelagiese
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Students getting up to pack their bags before the bell rings. Others talking to friends during a math lesson. And more of them showing up late to class. A new study has found that these types of disruptive behaviours have increased in recent years.
theglobeandmail.com
Students’ social skills have deteriorated after prolonged online learning during COVID, surveys show and teachers worry disruptive behaviours are spilling into society
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Union calls on four trustees at an Ontario Catholic school board to step down after lavish Italy trip that included $28,000 in public funds on airfare, $1,600 for a dinner and $15,900 for hotels in Munich and Italy.
theglobeandmail.com
The board has faced widespread criticism since revelations last month that four trustees spent $50,000 for a week-long trip to Italy, where they also purchased $72,000 in artwork
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Ontario school board spent $32K to send staffers to education conference in Hawaii.
cbc.ca
The Lambton Kent District School Board in southwestern Ontario spent over $32,000 to send three staff members to an education conference in Hawaii this year, according to documents obtained by CBC....
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From @acoyne: 'All my life I have been an admirer of the United States and its people. But I am frightened of it now, and I am even more frightened of them.'.
theglobeandmail.com
There is no sense in understating the depth of the disaster of Donald Trump’s re-election
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Ontario Catholic school trustees under fire for lavish Italy trip (28,000 in public funds on airfare and $1,600 for a dinner) and artwork spending
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Sage advice from @coreymintz. Taking (Halloween) candy from a baby: A parent’s guide
theglobeandmail.com
We grown-ups can buy our own treats, but there is nothing so sweet as candy stolen from a child
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Ontario Catholic school board changes expenses policy following $145,000 trip to Italy for artwork
theglobeandmail.com
Minister of Education’s approval now required for Trustees at the Brant Haldimand Norfolk Catholic District School Board to expense alcohol, upgrade hotel rooms or travel outside of North America
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RT @SSKedreporter: This is an important story. Even with so much going on. read it!!! This is about an expensive program to re-enroll dro….
chalkbeat.org
The district launched the Back to Our Future program in partnership with three nonprofits in 2022. Now, the city is looking to overhaul it.
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Missouri elementary school names building after beloved custodian
cbsnews.com
Custodian Claudene Wilson is so dedicated to Swedeborg District lll Elementary School that, over the past 30 years, she has taken on many additional responsibilities.
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There has been widespread criticism in recent years over how children are taught to read. This survey from a University of Alberta professor looks at how much future teachers understand about how to teach children to read.
theglobeandmail.com
The survey of literacy concepts was administered by a University of Alberta professor and designed to highlight how equipped future educators are to teach children how to read
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Families of students receiving Chromebooks in equitable access program will be charged for repairs, TDSB says
theglobeandmail.com
The program provides board-owned computers to students to use over a four-year period at home and at school, but the school board says there were more devices being used in schools and more costs...
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Ontario government to conduct a governance review of Catholic school board’s $145,000 trip to Italy to buy religious artwork
theglobeandmail.com
Education Minister Jill Dunlop says the province will send an investigator to review the procedures at the Brant Haldimand Norfolk Catholic District School Board in Brantford
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The trip was “undertaken in good faith to promote our Catholic identity” but the board recognized that “the optics and actions of this trip were not favorable." Ontario Catholic trustees will pay back expenses from $145,000 Italy trip
theglobeandmail.com
Education Minister Jill Dunlop says the province will send an investigator to review the procedures at the Brant Haldimand Norfolk Catholic District School Board in Brantford
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RT @calphonso: $145,000 school board art trip to Italy questioned by Education Minister Jill Dunlop .
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$145,000 school board art trip to Italy questioned by Education Minister Jill Dunlop
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BC Conservatives would remove sexual orientation, gender identity teaching resources from schools, party says.
theglobeandmail.com
The Conservatives said they would replace the teaching resources with anti-bullying programs, and remove guilt-inducing materials, which the party did not provide details on
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