The province will notify parents whenever the absentee rate among staff and students reaches 30 percent.
ONTARIO - The province is about to start sharing information about school absences.
Officials will notify parents whenever the absentee rate among staff and students reaches 30 percent, regardless if those absences are COVID related.
Starting today, the province will also share information about school closures on it's website. It will have a list of all of the schools that were closed the previous day and it will a searchable table with each school's absentee rate.
Most kids have been back in the classroom for about a week now and the province has not required school boards to share information about COVID infections ever since.

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