US EditionPeel School Board Supervision a 'Smokescreen' for Underfunding, Chair Says
The Peel District School Board faces supervision due to budget deficits and planned cuts affecting about 1,400 students, marking the seventh board under provincial oversight since last year.
- On Wednesday, Education Minister Paul Calandra announced he placed the Peel District School Board under provincial supervision due to a plan to lay off 60 teachers and repeated budget deficits.
- Peel board chair David Green says deficits were covered by dipping into reserves and blames higher special education spending and provincial underfunding for shortfalls.
- To save money, the board is moving resource teachers into classrooms covered by long-term occasional teachers whose contracts are being cut short, and David Green said these are not layoffs.
- Calandra warned that disrupting classrooms mid-year for about 1,400 students was not acceptable and gave the York Catholic District School Board two weeks to avoid supervision.
- The intervention is part of a recent pattern in which Peel District School Board became the seventh board placed under provincial supervision since Paul Calandra, Education Minister, took office last year.
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Peel school board chair calls takeover a 'smokescreen' for provincial underfunding
The chair of a school board recently taken over by Ontario's minister of education is defending the board's management and finances, saying the supervision is a "smokescreen" to distract from provincial underfunding.
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Peel school board supervision a 'smokescreen' for underfunding, chair says
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Peel school board supervision a ‘smokescreen’ for underfunding, chair says – 105.9 The Region
The chair of a school board recently taken over by Ontario’s minister of education is defending the management and finances of the board, saying the supervision is a “smokescreen” to distract from provincial underfunding. Education Minister Paul Calandra announced Wednesday that he was putting Peel District School Board under supervision due to a plan to lay off 60 teachers and repeated budget deficits. Peel is the seventh board placed under pro…
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