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The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board has approved an $856.0 million budget for school year 2015-2016.  The 2015-2016 budget represents the first year of a three year plan to more closely align spending with Ministry of Education funding levels. The largest component of the budget is $630 million, allocated to instruction, followed by $90. ...

St. Anthony Catholic School is teaming up with local residents and Ecology Ottawa to tear up a portion of their school grounds and plant a garden. On June 20 th , MP Paul Dewar, MPP Yasir Naqvi and Councillor Catherine McKenney will help kick off the event from 10am-10:45am. ...

Information about The preparation of report cards for elementary students is a task that is normally shared between 3,000 elementary teachers and approximately 160 principals and vice principals. An elementary report card has up to 28 data fields for mark entry per student. ...

Register for a City of Ottawa summer day camp by June 1, 2015 and you could be one of 50 lucky campers to win your week’s cost back, up to a value of $250. All registrations received by this date will automatically be entered into the draw. ...

The idea for the book came from a place of simply being fed up with seeing people so miserable, so unhappy and feeling so powerless over their lives. I needed to do something about it so I made it my mission to begin the process of preventing this from occurring in the first place - out came “Everyday Superheroes! ...

Connaught Public School is celebrating its 100 th anniversary with a community celebration. The school was named in honour of the Duke of Connaught, a former governor-general of Canada. The event is scheduled for this Thursday, May 7 th commencing at 5:30 in the evening. ...

[caption id=“attachment_13508” align=“aligncenter” width=“405”] Mr. Loaf by Andrew King[/caption]

Effective Wednesday, April 22, 2015 the students and staff of Charles H. Hulse Public School be relocated to the Parkwood Hills Public School building at 60 Tiverton Drive. Transportation will be provided for all students. Students and staff will resume regular instruction ...

Canada’s Financial Literacy Leader Joins Canadian Foundation for Economic Education and BMOFinancial Group to Mark Third Annual ‘Talk With Our Kids About Money Day’ at Parents’ Meeting in Ottawa _ Talk With Our Kids about Money _ , powered by BMO Financial Group, is a program to help young Canadians learn about money and personal finance. ...

The Day of Pink is the International Day against bullying, discrimination, homophobia, transphobia and transmisogyny across the world.  With over 9.4 million participants this year, people in schools, workplaces and communities will don pink to challenge bullying, homophobia and transphobia. ...