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The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board has announced that all elementary school students will be able to see their final marks — but exactly when, or how that happens, remains a work in progress.

The board is now designing a plan to share the marks that teachers have submitted for 43,000 students from JK to Grade 7.

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Details of that scheme are to be made public Monday.

“We know that parents want this information and we’ll find a way of getting it to them,” education director Jennifer Adams vowed in an interview Wednesday.

The announcement represents a rapid about-face for the board. Last week, the board said that only students in Grades 8 to 12 would be receiving report cards because of the work-to-rule campaign launched by the city’s public elementary and high school teachers.

But the board came under intense pressure from unhappy parents, who wanted to see the final marks of their children. The teachers’ union also launched a war of words, accusing the school board of not doing its job.