Back to School in the Northeast
Back-to-school 2020
With the reopening of schools amid the pandemic, many families have a lot to consider.
That is why we have compiled news on sending the kids back-to-school that you can use to help you make those important decisions.
Ontario Ministry of Education's requirements for remote learning
Information on busing:
Northeastern Ontario back-to-school info
- Porcupine Health Unit explains school policy
- Talking to your kids about COVID-19
- Sudbury school bus cancellations continue fifth week in a row
- Return of some school sports in Sudbury
- Another week of cancellations for 14 Sudbury school bus routes
- Sault school board looking to hire adults to be supply teachers even with no teaching certificate
- Sudbury teen gets kudos for his daily ride
- Sault school board dealing with teacher shortage
- Northern Ont. student takes go-kart to school after bus service cancelled
- Sudbury volunteer makes more than 1,000 masks, now being used in area schools
- COVID worsens Sudbury's school bus driver shortage
- Ont. Liberal leader on back-to-school roundtable
- Aspiring hairstylists resume in-person training
- Sudbury school bus cancellations continue a third week
- Custodian's view on returning to school
- Students sent home from a Sault elementary school after social media posts show they recently visited the U.S.
- Health unit in Sudbury outlines how it will handle COVID-19 cases in local schools
- Cambrian College, Vale and Indspire to offer $150,000 in scholarships to Indigenous students
More back-to-school news
- Ontario Liberals launch back-to-school whistleblowing website
- Back to school: How to get your kids on a sleep routine
- Back-to-school shopping amid COVID-19: What you need for September
- Teachers face low risk of COVID-19 if there's proper prevention, Ontario’s top doctor says
- 'My patience is running very low': Ontario premier calls on teachers to 'step up'
- Dr. Abdu Sharkawy: Why not all of my kids are going back to school
- Ontario unveils detailed plan on dealing with COVID-19 outbreaks in schools
- Ontario government releases ads ahead of back-to-school. Here's what they say
- Ontario school bus drivers ask for COVID-19 safety protocols ahead of start of new year
- Ontario families worried about sending children back to school amid pandemic
- Twice as many children will go to school hungry this year, predicts Breakfast Club organization
- Ontario substitute teachers forgotten in COVID-19 conversation, group warns
- How COVID-19 is changing back-to-school shopping and budgets
- An early look at back-to-school in the COVID age as two French Catholic schools return
Stories from around the region
Timmins
- Timmins police warns fraudsters using AI to mimic voices of their grandchildren
- Feds fund mining projects in Sudbury that provide minerals critical for clean technology
- Intimate partner violence, impaired driving charges laid in Mattice-Val Cote
- Man with knife arrested at Kapuskasing restaurant