Toronto District School Board trustees reluctantly agreed to clip their wings Wednesday night — on orders from Queen’s Park — by giving up their offices, firing their constituency assistants, cutting their expense accounts by more than half and limiting their power to have a say in hiring of senior staff.
The moves were taken just nine days before a deadline from Minister of Education Liz Sandals to curb the ability of trustees to get involved in the everyday running of Canada’s largest school board.
Trustees are scrambling to meet 13 sweeping directives from Sandals, to be met by Feb. 13 — a period of just 29 days. (more...)
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