Education

Fanshawe College is implementing a full-time reduction target of 500 positions and has permanently suspended 59 programs. The college is dealing with an $11-million in-year deficit resulting from an 86 percent reduction in international students following federal enrolment caps.

The Renfrew County District School Board is eliminating approximately 11 full-time equivalent positions, including custodial and secretarial hours across more than 13 different schools in the county. The cuts will impact communities including Arnprior, Renfrew, Eganville, Douglas, Madawaska Valley, Pembroke, Petawawa and Deep River.

The Peel District School Board has declared more than 300 permanent teachers surplus for the next year, consisting of 159 secondary teachers and 172 elementary teachers. This is part of budget adjustments across Ontario school boards facing declining enrolment.

The Toronto District School Board is cutting almost 800 positions including more than 200 teachers who have received surplus notices. The layoffs include support staff such as lunchroom supervisors, educational assistants, designated early childhood educators, and clerical staff, along with previously announced cuts to vice-principals and centrally assigned staff.

Waterloo Catholic District School Board is eliminating 15 morning supervisor positions across 11 elementary schools by the end of the year. The cuts affect positions that have been in place for more than 10 years and support student supervision before the school day begins.

The Toronto Catholic District School Board is eliminating its daytime international language program, affecting 77 non-teacher instructors. The board is not cutting any teaching positions.

Nova Scotia's Department of Education is reducing 3% of school staff (147 positions) as part of broader public service cuts. The province is eliminating 69 specialized teaching positions such as literacy specialists and math coaches, with 8 additional Nova Scotia Teachers Union roles eliminated and one speech language pathologist vacancy unfilled for one year.

Selkirk College laid off or terminated contracts for 45 people in 2025 following a 32-per-cent drop in international enrollment. The college also suspended intakes in 14 programs and closed learning centres in Kaslo and Nakusp, as well as the Kootenay Studio Arts program in Nelson.

The York Region District School Board is laying off more than 200 workers, according to CUPE 1734 union. The layoffs affect staff employed by the school board in the York Region.

The Upper Canada District School Board notified CUPE Local 5678 of 31.32 full-time equivalent positions being eliminated for the 2026-27 school year. Positions being cut include early childhood educators, instructional assistants, and English-as-a-Second-Language instructors, with restructuring of the LIFT program.

The Catholic District School Board of Eastern Ontario will eliminate approximately 20 full-time equivalent positions including student support workers, information communications technology staff, and custodians. The board is also restructuring school secretary positions from 12-month to 10-month positions.

The Early Childhood Development Initiative has laid off two full-time staff members due to an unexpected gap in provincial funding for the Black Youth Action Plan grant program. The organization anticipates laying off approximately three additional staff members if funding is not restored within the next month.

The Toronto District School Board announced it will lay off 218 central administration staff and eliminate an additional 91 vacant positions. The cuts are intended to modernize central administration and keep resources in schools and classrooms amid years of declining enrolment.

NSCC (Nova Scotia Community College) is eliminating 91 positions as the institution works to address a $15 million deficit. The layoffs represent the college's response to significant financial challenges.

Nova Scotia's regional centres for education will cut 150 positions as part of mandatory budget reductions. Of these, 47 positions will be eliminated through attrition by cancelling long-vacant jobs, while the remaining positions will involve teachers moving from administrative and specialist roles back into classrooms.

The Nova Scotia Community College laid off 45 employees as part of efforts to address a $15-million deficit. In total, 91 positions were eliminated through layoffs, unfilled vacancies, term endings, voluntary exits, and retirements, including 50 management positions and 41 unionized positions across the province.

The Ottawa Catholic District School Board is cutting non-teaching positions as it focuses spending on students. The specific number of positions being eliminated was not disclosed in the article.

St. Lawrence College issued layoff notices to 28 full-time faculty members across its three campuses (Kingston, Cornwall, and Brockville) as part of ongoing restructuring efforts. An additional 16 full-time employees are being involuntarily transferred to other programs.

The Waterloo Catholic District School Board has declared 29 elementary teachers surplus due to an end to rapid enrolment growth. The board has already recalled 10 affected teachers and remains optimistic about recalling most or all before the next school year.

The Waterloo Region District School Board has declared 119 teachers surplus, including 97 elementary and 22 secondary teachers, with contracts terminating at the end of the year. The layoffs are part of a provincial directive for conservative staffing due to changing enrolment projections.