Ontario’s Plan To Catch Up will get students ‘back on track’ after COVID disruptions: Lecce
Posted July 25, 2022 12:16 pm.
Last Updated July 25, 2022 12:56 pm.
Saying “nothing is more important” than Ontario students being fully immersed in their school lives, Education Minister Stephen Lecce unveiled the province’s Plan To Catch Up after two years of pandemic disruptions.
Lecce made the announced at Viola Desmond Elementary School in Ajax on Monday morning, stressing the importance of a full return to in-person learning, including all sports, clubs and field trips.
Acknowledging that many students may have fallen behind during lengthy periods of remote learning, Lecce highlighted the government’s “historic supports” to get them back on track, “including a new province-wide tutoring program – the largest of its kind in the country – and expanded summer learning.”
“With almost 50,000 children benefiting from Ontario’s tutoring investments every week, and summer learning programs underway province-wide, Ontario’s plan is getting students back on track,” Lecce said.
“With an emphasis on getting back to basics, our government is focused on strengthening life and job skills in the classroom, so that students graduate as financially literate, technologically savvy, emotionally intelligent leaders, ready for the jobs of tomorrow.”
The province says it also emphasizing skilled trades, and making education more practical by teaching youth about personal financial management, budgeting and financial planning.
An overhauled math curriculum through grades one to eight will focus on foundational math skills, financial literacy, budgeting and coding.
While the province is clearly focused on a full return to in-person learning, parents will still have the option of remote learning in the coming school year.
Full details of the plan can be found below:
