The Avon Maitland District School Board has not received a request for support from the Peel District School Board for its request to the Ministry that Education Quality and Accountability Office testing be suspended for this year.
Board Chair Randy Wagler acknowledges the ministry has indicated it's conducting some kind of review of both curriculum and EQAO, but he points out that's at the provincial level.
The curriculum has not changed at the local level, so they don't see any reason to change.
He adds there is likely going to be some adjustments to the curriculum, but until it does that Avon Maitland board is not pushing for a pause in EQAO testing.
"We're not yet considering doing that, even though we know that there is some flux in the curriculum that is going to happen, but until that's announced and the changes come forward, we wouldn't necessarily put a pause in," says Wagler.
