Retired Teachers: Supply Teaching

Laurel Broten Dept: The Ontario government decision to limit retired teachers to a maximum of 50 days per year of supply teaching, down from 95 days, is not enough to have the positive effect Education Minister Laurel Broten claims, according to The Star. Due to an obscure rule, the 50-day limit is really a 69-day limit. The regulation, which Ms Broten did not mention, allows pensioned teachers who work their last allowed day at the beginning of a school month to continue to work all the rest of the school days in that month, without pension penalty and re: Union turns back on province, Aug. 14 To give new teachers more access to long-term and daily occasional positions, retired teachers with full pensions should be limited to 20 school days per year at large, urban public school boards. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.