TORONTO - Ontario is cutting out its fall report card in the latest move against marking children early and on a rigid scale of letters or numbers.

Instead, educators will be looking at new ways to evaluate students.

Ontario's decision to swap the first report card of the year for an informal progress report is part of a wider change to be unveiled formally next month.

Ontario's teachers' unions have pushed for the elimination of the fall report card which they say comes too early in the school year for teachers to make useful judgments.

Annie Kidder, of People for Education, says she is concerned if dropping the fall report card means parents aren't kept in the loop.

The changes coming will also put a greater emphasis on learning skills rather than marks.