Bill 26 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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The Twenty-First Century Skills Award Act, 2011, establishes an award and potential bursary for one elementary and one secondary school pupil per school board, chosen by the Minister of Education, for demonstrating key skills.
This Ontario bill, titled the Twenty-First Century Skills Award Act, 2011, proposes to create an award to recognize elementary and secondary school pupils who demonstrate specific skills. The Minister of Education would be able to give this award, along with a bursary, to one student from each school board who shows skills like responsibility, organization, collaboration, initiative, self-regulation, and oral French proficiency (if applicable). Teachers would nominate students, and the Minister would make the final selection.
- Establishes the Twenty-First Century Skills Award for elementary and secondary school pupils.
- Allows the Minister of Education to select up to one elementary and one secondary school pupil from each school board to receive the award.
- Specifies that the award is for pupils who demonstrate skills in responsibility, organization, ability to work independently, collaboration, initiative, self-regulation, and, if applicable, oral French.
- Allows the Minister to pay a bursary to recipients of the award, funded by the Ministry's budget.
- Requires teachers to nominate pupils for the award by submitting a written recommendation to the Minister.
- States that the Minister's selection of a pupil for the award is not considered a regulation.
- Specifies that the Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
- Elementary school pupils in Ontario
- Secondary school pupils in Ontario
- Teachers in Ontario school boards
- The Minister of Education for Ontario
- Ontario school boards
- Teachers have the right to nominate pupils for the award.
- The Minister has the power to select award recipients and grant bursaries.
- Pupils selected for the award will receive a certificate and potentially a bursary.
- The Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
- The Ministry of Education's budget will be used to pay bursaries to award recipients.
- The selection of award recipients is based on the Minister's opinion.
- The bill does not specify the amount or criteria for the bursary beyond the Minister's determination.
- The bill does not specify how many pupils can be nominated by a teacher.
- The bill does not detail the process for how the Minister will evaluate nominations.
Defines terms used in this Act, such as 'board', 'French-language instructional unit', 'Minister', 'school year', 'teacher', 'elementary school pupil', and 'secondary school pupil'.
States that the Minister's act of selecting a pupil to receive the award is not considered a regulation under this Act.
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