Principals, collective agreements & school safety

Questions that needs to be asked and answered are: (1) How do teachers’ union collective agreements and the Ontario College of Teachers (OCT) policy impact how efficiently a principal can do his or her job? (2) Does that impact affect the safety and well being of Ontario’s children? Yesterday, Moira MacDonald wrote an interesting column [...]

McGuinty should fire board trustees, use N.B. model

Given that far too many of Ontario’s school boards’ elected trustees cannot be trusted to manage the public interest regarding board budgets and what goes on in Ontario’s schools, that model should be completely abolished in favour of the New Brunswick model of “School Districts.” Yesterday, for example, Ontario’s Education Minister Kathleen Wynn, had to take over the Toronto [...]