Saturday, January 10, 2015

A report on Toronto’s school board will explore tensions at the top

TDSB Director of Education Donna Quan attends a public meeting of trustees
Donna Quan, education director of the Toronto District School Board, did not mince her words in a memo to trustees last fall. Their tone revealed “bias” and their line of questioning was “unfair,” she wrote, summing up the behaviour as an “extreme disappointment” to her entire senior management team.

The memo, titled Statement of Concern, landed in trustees’ inboxes late one evening in October, a few days after a meeting where they voted to sever the school board’s ties to the Confucius Institute, a controversial language and culture program controlled by the Chinese government. Several school board sources said they were shocked that Ms. Quan, who reports to the board’s 22 trustees as their sole employee, had publicly reprimanded her bosses.  (more...)


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