Minister directs TDSB
Minister’s directives TDSB (1) Minister’s directives TDSB (2) Louise Brown GTA, Kristin Rushowy Education Reporter, Published Toronto Star on Thu Jan 15 2015 Education Minister Liz Sandals has ordered Toronto District School Board trustees to vacate their offices at board headquarters, get ride of their assistants and stop butting into the everyday operations of the country’s […]
De-amalgamating TDSB?
Kristin Rushowy The Star Education Reporter, Published on Mon Jan 12 2015 Too big, too unwieldly and utterly dysfunctional. For years, such criticism has been levelled against the Toronto District School Board — one of the largest in North America, the biggest in Canada and nearly twice the size of the next biggest Ontario board. Forged […]
Province won’t consult boards on school-closure rule changes
The Ministry of Education won’t be giving individual school boards a say on new guidelines that will allow school-closure studies to be done more quickly and with less citizen input. Spokesperson Gary Wheeler said the ministry has already “conducted comprehensive consultations with many of our education partners” on the news rules, which cut the existing […]
Austerity’s unaffordable tax cuts breed extreme poverty
“The Right’s greatest success has been to redefine taxes as a burden” says Alex Himelfarb, former clerk of Canada’s Privy Council: The number one issue for me is inequality. … Austerity at every level of government–largely self-imposed through years of unaffordable tax cuts – has eroded our key redistributive institutions, welfare and employment insurance, and […]
school closing changes
Major changes coming for school closing process Currently, school boards must undertake a thorough public process when they are considering closing or consolidating schools. Ontario’s Ministry of Education is planning significant changes to the guidelines (see below) for the review process entitled “Accommodation Review” or ARC. The Ministry says that these changes to policy are to “address declining enrolment issues and […]
TDSB board committees
Trustee Committees TDSB Trustees meet at least nine times during the year for regular meetings of all trustees. There are also four standing committees and one permanent committee that meet and present reports at the regular Board meetings. Administration, Finance and Accountability Committee Trustee Michael Ford Trustee David Smith, Chair Trustee Chris Tonks, Vice-chair Trustee […]
Shaun Chen elected to chair the TDSB
TDSB elects Trustee Shaun Chen to chair newly elected board. Scarborough’s Sean Chen wants ‘to turn the page’ on past disputes involving Donna Quan and more. Chen defeated Chris Glover for the job Monday night. more…
Live link to board meetings
Watch the live webcast of TDSB board meeting’s from 7pm Dec 1st, Dec 10th 2014 and in monthly (see schedule).
$500m cut to education budget
Some schools in Ontario will be shut down as the Liberal government makes education funding cuts to help eliminate a $12.5-billion deficit in three years, Education Minister Liz Sandals admitted Tuesday. The planned cuts are included in the government’s 2015-16 education funding guide, which was obtained by the New Democrats and calls for permanent savings […]
results
Trustee Toronto District School Board – Ward 1 66 of 66 Polls Reporting Candidate Total votes % of total votes Michael Ford 10511 43.741% John Hastings 5371 22.351% Tahir Ahmad 2934 12.21% Sandy Zajac 1302 5.418% Dahir Galbete 1286 5.352% Kim King 1046 4.353% Richardo Harvey 914 3.804% Eli Sivalingam 666 2.772% Totals 24030 100% […]