Globe goes after TDSB’s labour costs
(photo credit: Peter Power/The Globe and Mail 2013.04.10) Toronto Interactive See which Toronto schools have ballooning labour costs Stuart A. Thompson and Kate Hammer The Globe and Mail Wednesday, Apr. 10 2013, 1:05 PM EDT The Toronto District School Board is the largest school board in […]
This sad week at the School Board
The shocking news about Trustee Atkinson reached CPE Saturday evening. On Sunday the Globe and Mail reported that “Irene Atkinson, a blunt advocate for educational causes, was feted at a [Campaign for Public Education] party last December [11th]. It was the 40th anniversary of her first being elected as a Toronto District School Board trustee, a […]
Save our Community
Chatsworth Drive is lined with lawn signs as are streets throughout the John Wanless Public School area. Check out the soswanless.com website This community is up and ready to take on several levels of government to protect their community during what’s likely to be a tough fight ahead with boundary changes on the horizon. […]
$27m in staff cuts on the table tonight
Those not in the house (5050 Yonge St) might like to follow the recast motion via live streaming; just click here: tdsb.on.ca Now 3 hours from where they started at 7:30pm, the school board trustees recessed until 10:30pm They will be back then to the point of the agenda where the agenda item started as the board […]
No end to deep freeze @TDSB
Update on Capital Funding – TDSB’s New Policy on Land Severance -Trustee Howard Kaplan Ward 5 The Provincial Government’s decision to freeze capital funding for TDSB put the Board in an difficult position. Several schools in the city are severely overcrowded and had begun construction projects to relieve the congestion. With funding frozen, these projects […]
Weigh in on governance debate here:
Errol Young, photographer, former school trustee, community activist and online education commentator He represents community interests in the ongoing battles to keep public education public at a monthly assembly of groups and organizations which, for over a decade has run joint campaigns under the title of the CAMPAIGN FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION. CPE’s own 10 Point Program insists that parents, […]
Globe disses TDSB
The TDSB is “dysfunctional” and in the midst of a “governance crisis”. So says Canada’s generally centre-right but influential Globe & Mail. The paper calls for major change at the country’s largest school board. CREDIT BELOW “Toronto in early 2013 finds itself facing a double crisis of governance. The first, of course, is at City […]
“sour” trustees?
It has been a thoroughly rotten week for the Toronto District School Board. Its much-admired education director, Chris Spence, has been caught plagiarizing. Its fiscal management is under scrutiny from the provincial government, which sent in consultants this week to help fix things. And, oh, its elementary-school teachers, like their colleagues around the province, are […]
TDSB officials denounce Broten
10:45pm Jan. 04 2013, The same day Ontario Education Minister Laurel Broten was preaching restraint as she imposed a tough new deal on teachers, she quietly renewed a contract with a maintenance workers’ union that billed a Toronto school $143 to install a pencil sharpener. Toronto District School Board officials denounced Ms. Broten’s unilateral […]
Bolton & Chen re-elected
News from Monday’s Board Organizational Meeting. Chris Bolton, Trustee for Ward 10, was acclaimed by Trustees as the Chair of the Toronto District School Board during the annual Organizational Board meeting this evening. Shaun Chen, Trustee for Ward 21, was re-elected to the position of Vice Chair. A former Toronto school board teacher and principal, […]