In mid-March, Education Minister Liz Sandals announced, with a splash, the (latest) panel to tackle the dysfunctional Toronto District School Board (TDSB) — this one to look at whether it had outgrown its shelf life.
The seven-member panel, costing $150 per diem daily per member and headed by Barbara Hall (fresh from her 10-year cozy $167,341 sinecure with the Ontario Human Rights Commission) was to report by end of June — latest end of summer — on a possible new and more effective model to govern the board.
The task force followed on the heels of a 34-page report on the embattled board by respected educator Margaret Wilson, which was delivered in January.
A source told me back when the latest panel was struck that it was really done to find a way to get rid of education director Donna Quan, who is said to be a controlling micro-manager and has much to do with the “culture of fear” at the board noted in Wilson’s report. (more...)
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