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Ontario’s 45,000 English Catholic teachers have ratified a new contract.

A tentative agreement was reached on March 12 by the Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Association, the provincial government and the Ontario Catholic School Trustees’ Association following a winter marked by rotating strikes and a one-day action that drew protests by teachers and education works in cities across the province.

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The union represents English Catholic teachers from kindergarten through high school,

“This was a particularly difficult round of negotiations, in which the government was seeking to implement significant cuts to publicly funded education,” said union president Liz Stuart in a statement Wednesday.

The terms of the contract include funding for programs and supports for vulnerable students and an agreement that no student is required to participate in mandatory e-learning, as well as enhanced processes related to the reporting of violence in the classroom, according to Stuart.