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2021-2022 Executive Council Transitional Conference
This past weekend, the 2021-2022 OSTA-AECO Executive Council kicked off the start of their term with a 2-day transitional conference at the Toronto CF Marriott Hotel. After doing meetings via Microsoft Teams since their elections at the 2021 May Annual General Meeting...
Press Statement Regarding 2021/22 Back to School Re-Opening Plan
The Ontario Student Trustees Association would like to acknowledge the recent release of the Ministry of Education’s return-to-school plan. The Ministry has done an exceptional job in prioritizing the return for many pre-COVID-19 aspects of school, but a greater...
Press Statement on the Terrorist Attack against a Muslim Family
An act of terrorism that has killed three generations of a Muslim family and orphaned a young boy has disheartened students across Ontario. We mourn the Afzaal-Salman families and we offer our sincerest condolences to the victims’ friends and families. OSTA-AECO...
Joint statement on supporting 2SLGBTQ+ students in Ontario schools
Today on International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, OSTA-AECO and 10 other provincial stakeholders are issuing this joint statement calling upon the Ontario government to take action in supporting our 2SLGBTQ+ students in all publicly-funded...
Our press statement on the making remote learning a permanent option
Students are concerned with the Ministry of Education's proposed plan to make remote learning a permanent option. Such a change would present many negative impacts for the student body. In 2019, OSTA-AECO released a publication concerning the Students'...
Provincial government’s recent announcement on the temporary move to remote learning
With the cases of COVID-19 on the rise, OSTA-AECO recognizes that the government has taken the necessary actions to lower transmission rates and keep the health and safety of students a priority. While these steps are crucial, we look forward to the government...
World mental health day
On behalf of OSTA-AECO, the Co-Chairs of the Student Well-Being Working Group, Keith Baybayon and Isabel Unger would like to take a moment in acknowledging and celebrating World Mental Health Day. With the recent end of Mental Health Awareness Week, we wanted to touch...
Orange shirt day 2020
Orange Shirt Day is a day where we as people take the time to honour and remember the traumatic experiences that had taken place within Residential Schools, where innocent children were taken away from their families and were physically, mentally and sexually abused....
Use of school board reserve funds
OSTA-AECO is concerned about the recent announcement made by the Ministry of Education with respect to the use of school boards' reserve funds to accommodate for the additional costs of reopening schools in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. The reliance on reserve...
Our commitment to addressing systemic racism
We are aware of the recent allegations made against OSTA-AECO. Unfortunately, these allegations are interconnected with a severe conduct issue unrelated to these allegations of racism; as a result, we are limited in our capacity to respond without creating further...