Some positive news: a tentative deal's been reached between the Ontario government and the union representing Franco-Ontarian teachers.
Education Minister Stephen Lecce says the tentative agreement with the Association of Franco-Ontarian Teachers and related groups will help "provid[e] stability for our students and staff", advancing student priorities like lower class sizes, enhanced special education supports, and the protection of full-day kindergarten.
Tentative deals have also been reached with the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario and Ontario English Catholic Teachers' Association since schools were closed amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
This still leaves the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation without a contract deal, though it has suspended its sanctions indefinitely.