Ontario's Liberal government has agreed to cap full-day kindergarten classes at 30, according to a copy of a tentative contract extension agreement with elementary teachers obtained by The Canadian Press.
If ratified, elementary teachers will get a four percent raise over two years.
That's the same compensation offered to English Catholic teachers and French teachers, according to several other media reports.
Currently, each school board must have an average full-day kindergarten class size of 26, but there is no cap.
The government has secured two-year contract extensions for all central education unions except the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation, giving the unions deals until 2019 and giving the Liberals labour peace with the teachers ahead of the provincial election next year.