Policy resolutions Member boards may also submit policy resolutions for consideration at the Annual General Meeting. Policy resolutions help the Association to set work priorities, to develop policies and to establish future directions. Guidelines for the submission of policy resolutions were distributed to member boards with the February 16 issue of Fast Reports , Vol 13, No. 5. The Ontario Teachers' Federation is meeting with the government to work out a deal that will allow retired teachers to work regular hours. Some boards are hiring supply teachers to fill full-time positions, leaving them short of supply teachers.
Administrators turn to retirees first when the supply list dwindles.
They may have been necessary a decade ago, Sandals said, but this doesn't reflect the current environment. People are going out at a young age. There is no reason why we can't have people coming back to teach well beyond three years. As reported in the Hamilton Spectator, February 27. 16,300 teachers required by 2010.