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Written by Sheila Dabu, The Catholic Register
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Thursday, 03 September 2009 |
 TORONTO - After a successful first year of school-based policing, 20 more officers will be patrolling hallways this ?September to bring the total number of officers in schools to 50, says Toronto Police.
“These officers approached these assignments with insatiable energy and dedication. As a result, we have created new relationships with young people all over Toronto. They, in turn have come to respect police officers on an entirely different level,” said Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair in a statement.
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Written by Sheila Dabu, The Catholic Register
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Wednesday, 26 August 2009 |
 TORONTO - It's going to be a tough new assignment, but the Toronto Catholic District School Board's new supervisor says he's up to the challenge.
Richard Alway assumes his new role Aug. 27, taking over from the provincially appointed supervision team of Norbert Hartmann and Norm Forma. The team resigned on Aug. 21. The Ontario government has been running the embattled board since last year when trustees became mired in a spending scandal and failed to balance the board's budget.
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Written by Sheila Dabu, The Catholic Register
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Tuesday, 25 August 2009 |
 MISSISSAUGA, Ont. - The Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board says it’s much ado about nothing in the case of a Brampton principal who removed an American literary classic from his school’s Grade 10 reading list.
St. Edmund Campion High School principal Kevin McGuire will add a Canadian novel instead of the Pulitzer-prize winning and controversial book To Kill A Mockingbird, says board spokesperson Bruce Campbell.
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Written by Sheila Dabu, The Catholic Register
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Tuesday, 25 August 2009 |
 TORONTO - When Saskatoon Catholic Cyber School student Erika Shervan has a basketball or volleyball game, she doesn’t have to worry about catching up on her math homework. Shervan can take her Grade 11 math class at home or anywhere with an Internet connection.
This flexibility and the ability to learn at your own pace are the main selling points of taking the online course, said the 17-year-old.
Schools need to wake up to the digital reality of students’ lives and learning habits, says a new report by the Ontario Public School Boards’ Association .
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Written by Sheila Dabu, The Catholic Register
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Tuesday, 25 August 2009 |
 TORONTO - As Aimee Gerdevich’s daughter and her senior kindergarten classmates shivered in the winter months in their newly renovated classroom, the 39-year-old mother of three developed a passion for educational advocacy.
Becoming more involved in school council meetings led her to “have a finger on the pulse of what’s happening in my child’s education,” she told The Catholic Register from Thunder Bay, Ont.
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