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Teaching Staffs: Cabinet Ministers and School Boards

teaching staffs: Kitchener-Conestoga and Jeremy Roberts Ottawa West-Nepean . Education Minister Lisa Thompson has established a 1.6 billion attrition protection fund to help school boards manage reductions in teaching staffs without resorting to layoffs, according to Toronto Star. Chris Young / THE CANADIAN PRESS FILE PHOTO Sources said a few cabinet ministers were added to the list despite their more decisive victories, with Education Minister Lisa Thompson Huron-Bruce among them. The postcards, which are being distributed this week, are aimed at more than 30 Tory ridings considered vulnerable, including those held by MPPs like Christine Hogarth Etobicoke-Lakeshore Robin Martin Eglinton-Lawrence Mike Harris Jr. It is unclear if voters in Premier Doug Ford's Etobicoke North riding are included. Article Continued Below The targeted mailouts represent a new strategy for the Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation, the Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association and the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario. If every home receives one, about a million cards would be sent out to the 33 ridings. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.