Archives: OPSBA News Posts
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Take Your MPP to School Week
Take Your MPP to School Week is taking place during and around the week of May 21 to 24 and celebrates the value of local advocacy and collaboration between school board trustees, school boards, and schools and Ontario’s MPPs.
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2025 OPSBA Annual Meeting and Program
The OPSBA Annual Meeting and Program 2025 will take place from June 12 to 14 at Queen’s Landing Hotel in Niagara-on-the-Lake. Registration is now open, see our full program and register through our event site. This year’s theme, Maximizing Impact: Leading with Purpose, Achieving Meaningful Change, will guide a dynamic program featuring keynote speaker Karl…
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Federal Election Priorities
On April 28, 2025, Canadians throughout the country will elect Members of Parliament (MPs). MPs are elected to represent the views of their constituents. The policies of government are far-reaching and affect everyone, whether or not they have children in the school system. While public education is a provincial and territorial government mandate, federal decisions…
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OPSBA reaffirms commitment to action on Anti-Black Racism in Ontario’s public education system
Toronto, March 27, 2025 – The Ontario Public School Boards’ Association (OPSBA) strongly supports the recommendations outlined within the Ontario Human Rights Commission’s (OHRC) new report Dreams Delayed: Addressing Systemic Anti-Black Racism and Discrimination in Ontario’s Public Education System. “Black students, like all students, deserve to be educated in identity-affirming and inspiring learning environments where…
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2025 Healthy Democracy Student Leadership Award
The Healthy Democracy Student Leadership Award, a partnership between the Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) and OPSBA, is being awarded in the amount of $1,000 to one graduating English public school student in each of OPSBA’s five regions. Scholarship recipients are students with leadership skills and potential, who care deeply about their communities and furthering…
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2025 Education Labour Relations and Human Resources Symposium (LRS)
May 1 and 2, 2025, at the Sheraton Centre in Toronto Positive Workplaces: HR and Labour Relations Practices That Support Employee Wellness and Success OPSBA’s annual Education Labour Relations and Human Resources Symposium is designed to provide professional development in the areas of labour relations and human resources to trustees, directors of education, senior human…
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2025 OPSBA Awards
Do you know someone extraordinary—be it a teacher, education worker, school administrator, trustee, student, or community member—whose exceptional contributions deserve recognition for making a significant impact in their local school or community? Nominations for the 2025 Ontario Public School Boards’ Association (OPSBA) Awards are now open! Don’t miss the chance to highlight and celebrate those…