Residents across the Louis Riel School Division are planning an anti-hate rally ahead of a suspended trustee resuming her duties after a three-month penalty related to anti-LGBTTQ+ activity on social media #mbed #wfp https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2023/08/16/anti-hate-rally-planned-for-school-division-board-meeting

A new guide on greening schoolyards calls on K-12 communities to reimagine lots, which are typically home to black tops and sports fields, so they become climate-resilient sites where students can learn to care for local ecosystems #mbed #wfp https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2023/08/15/schools-urged-to-transform-fields-build-eco-literacy

LRSD is investigating after “freedom fighters” sent a $2K cheque to a trustee who was suspended from her duties without pay after making anti-LGBTTQ+ comments and signal-boosting conspiracy theories on social media #mbed #wfp https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2023/08/10/payment-to-suspended-trustee-probed

The Indigenous Education Caring Society is furthering its mission to grow the number of G12 graduates in the North End with a second satellite school designed to draw disengaged teens and young adults back to class after the COVID-19 pandemic #mbed #wfp https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2023/08/09/second-school-eyed-to-battle-chronic-absenteeism

Manitoba’s online summer school is cracking down on academic dishonesty in a bid to deter students from using artificial intelligence to do their homework #mbed #wfp https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2023/07/25/online-high-school-puts-summer-students-on-ai-plagiarism-notice

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U of M has issued 20 fines of $100 or more, evicted three students from campus dorms and pulled one individual out of a practicum in response to COVID-19 policy breaches #mbed #wfp https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2023/02/16/rise-in-misconduct-at-u-of-m-a-sign-of-stressful-times-discipline-chair-says

Manitoba is shuttering its virtual elementary school and sending both students who are immunocompromised and their peers who found success learning remotely — a silver lining that came out of COVID-19 disruptions — back to in-person instruction #mbed #wfp https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2023/02/14/virtual-school-a-reality-no-more

New: Schools are now listed alongside foundries, sawmills and excavation sites as Manitoba’s most “high-risk industries” #mbed #wfp https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2023/02/13/schools-added-to-manitoba-list-of-high-risk-industries

U of M is stocking campus bathrooms with free pads and tampons, as part of a new pilot project to support students and staff members who menstruate #mbed #wfp https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2023/02/09/u-of-m-pilot-project-will-put-free-tampons-pads-in-campus-washrooms

New: Manitoba’s future G12 students will not be spared from taking high-stakes provincial exams after all.

The education department has revealed a U-turn in its approach to modernizing the provincial assessment schedule #mbed #wfp https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/2023/02/08/grade-12-exams-headed-back-to-class-in-manitoba

Manitoba Education is giving school leaders until June to update their policies on chronic absenteeism in a bid to create urgency around improving student engagement and locating thousands of pupils who have become “inactive” #mbed #wfp https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2023/01/16/province-seeks-focus-on-student-presence-and-engagement-to-battle-absenteeism

New: Frustrated families want to know why they were not notified immediately about dangerous levels of CO2 in a school in Brokenhead Ojibway Nation that sent nearly a dozen people to hospital last week #mbed #wfp https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2023/01/16/elevated-carbon-dioxide-levels-in-school-sends-11-people-to-hospital

One Winnipeg teacher’s class list of Grade 4, 5 and 6s has grown to 35.

“How do we go from COVID, where they weren’t in school for X amount of months to now cramming them in like sardines and offering them no support?” #mbed #wfp https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2023/01/11/one-teacher-for-35-students-parents-give-school-failing-grade

Winnipeg teachers want to turn pupils into urban planners with a new educational video game that will task users with exploring digital replicas of local landmarks and inserting infrastructure to better the downtown core #mbed #wfp

https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/2022/12/29/gaming-their-way-into-urban-planning

New: School librarians, known for their organizational skills, research expertise and media literacy training, are becoming increasingly scarce in Manitoba.

WSD employed 5X the number of them in 2012-13 than today #mbed #wfp https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2022/12/29/budget-crunch-reduces-librarian-ranks-in-wsd

Manitoba’s largest school board is being urged to hire a full-time fundraiser to collect private donations in response to shortfalls in public funding and related program cuts #mbed #wfp

https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2022/12/21/parents-urge-school-board-to-hire-full-time-fundraiser

New: More than 6,500 students — about four per cent of Manitoba’s K-12 population — went missing from school in September 2020, an alarming statistic revealed in a new report that warns COVID-19 has worsened engagement in education #mbed #wfp https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/2022/12/19/education-task-force-report-puts-spotlight-on-chronic-school-absenteeism

The search for Ojibwa classroom posters, let alone fluent language speakers, proved challenging when Riverbend began to build its bilingual program.

Teachers hand-make most resources. Their newest additions are an online dictionary and app #mbed #wfp https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2022/12/19/ojibwa-dictionary-app-boost-language-learning

New: The timeline for Manitoba’s highly-anticipated overhaul in how it pays for K-12 schooling has been extended indefinitely.

Boards can expect a status-quo funding announcement for 2023-24, the education minister told the Free Press #wfp #mbed

https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2022/12/16/provinces-education-funding-overhaul-will-take-longer-than-expected-minister-says