Bill 190 explained in plain English
Twenty-First Century Skills Award Act, 2011
Ontario legislature bill summary, status, timeline, sponsor, votes, and official sources.
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Official Legislative Assembly of Ontario snapshot for 39th Parliament, 2nd Session. Representative vote breakdowns appear when the Assembly publishes an Ayes and Nays page for the bill.
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Bill 190, the Twenty-First Century Skills Award Act, 2011, proposes to create an award and optional bursary for one elementary and one secondary school pupil per school board based on demonstrated skills, to be awarded by the Minister of Education.
This bill proposes to create an award called the Twenty-First Century Skills Award to recognize outstanding elementary and secondary school pupils in Ontario. Teachers can nominate pupils who demonstrate specific skills, such as responsibility, organization, and collaboration. The Minister of Education will select recipients, with no more than one elementary and one secondary pupil per school board receiving the award each year. The Minister can also provide a bursary to the recipients.
- Establishes the Twenty-First Century Skills Award.
- Allows the Minister of Education to select up to one elementary school pupil and one secondary school pupil from each school board to receive the award.
- Specifies that the award is for pupils who demonstrate skills such as responsibility, organization, ability to work independently, collaboration, initiative, self-regulation, and oral French (if applicable).
- Allows the Minister to provide a bursary to the award recipients.
- States that the selection of a pupil for the award is not considered a regulation.
- Elementary school pupils
- Secondary school pupils
- Teachers
- School boards
- Minister of Education
- Teachers have the right to nominate pupils for the award.
- The Minister has the authority to select award recipients.
- The Minister has the authority to award a bursary.
- The Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
- Teachers must nominate pupils no later than two months before the end of each school year.
- The Minister must select recipients within two months after the end of the school year.
- The Minister may pay a bursary to award recipients, funded from the Ministry's budget.
- The bill does not specify the amount of the bursary, only that the Minister determines it.
- The bill states the Minister's selection of a pupil is not a regulation, but does not detail any other administrative processes or appeals.
- The bill refers to 'school work' but does not further define how 'demonstrated skills' are to be assessed beyond a teacher's recommendation and the Minister's opinion.
Defines terms used in this bill, including 'board', 'French-language instructional unit', 'Minister', 'school year', 'teacher', 'elementary school pupil', and 'secondary school pupil'.
Specifies that the Minister's act of selecting an award recipient is not a regulation under Part III of this Act.
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