{"id":28865,"date":"2020-02-25T08:06:34","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T13:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=28865"},"modified":"2020-02-25T08:06:34","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T13:06:34","slug":"minister-of-education-on-increased-escalation-by-etfo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/25\/minister-of-education-on-increased-escalation-by-etfo\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister of Education on Increased Escalation by ETFO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Lecce, Minister of Education, issued the following statement Monday afternoon, February 24, 2020 in response to escalated strike action by ETFO (Elementary Teachers&#8217; Federation of Ontario):<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>&#8220;The safety and security of our students are of the utmost importance to this government. I hope that ETFO will work with school boards to ensure that the escalated work-to-rule measures do not risk student safety and security.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>That is why our government is squarely focused on getting a deal that ends the continuous escalation by teachers&#8217; union leaders, so our kids remain in class.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Our government wants to see investments in education helping our students, not increasing compensation and enhancing already generous benefits packages.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>I remain fully committed to reaching a deal that keeps students in class, provides certainty to parents, and fairness to educators.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Lecce, Minister of Education, issued the following statement Monday afternoon, February 24, 2020 in response to escalated strike action by ETFO (Elementary Teachers&#8217; Federation of Ontario): &#8220;The safety and security of our students are of the utmost importance to this government. I hope that ETFO will work with school boards to ensure that the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-25 21:14:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28866,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28865\/revisions\/28866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}