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By Allison Jones Ontario’s education minister placed a seventh school board under supervision Wednesday in order to prevent dozens of teachers from being laid off, he says, and he is planning to soon take control of another board over financial concerns. Paul Calandra announced that he has put Peel District School Board under supervision and is giving the York Catholic District School Board two weeks to make a case for avoiding the same fate. The board in Peel Region, west of Toronto, was about to lay off 60 teachers, Calandra said. That would have affected about 1,400 students. “Mid-way through the year, they were planning on laying off teachers and moving around classrooms and impacting students,” he said in an interview. “You can just imagine what that does in schools,… <\/p>\n

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By Allison Jones Ontario’s education minister placed a seventh school board under supervision Wednesday in order to prevent dozens of teachers from being laid off, he says, and he is planning to soon take control of another board over financial concerns. Paul Calandra announced that he has put Peel District School Board under supervision and is giving the York Catholic District School Board two weeks to make a case for avoiding the same fate. The board in Peel Region, west of Toronto, was about to lay off 60 teachers, Calandra said. That would have affected about 1,400 students. “Mid-way through the year, they were planning on laying off teachers and moving around classrooms and impacting students,” he said in an interview. “You can just imagine what that does in schools,... <\/p>\n

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