The Ontario government is appointing a supervisor to oversee a London-area school board that has run a deficit for several years, while also initiating inquiries into the financial practices of three other boards.
Education Minister Paul Calandra announced a range of accountability and transparency measures for school boards this week, saying financial mismanagement has increasingly become an issue.
“We have a new troubling trend in the education sector, with boards making bad choices on how to spend funding meant to support our students and teachers,” Calandra said during an April 23 press conference. “As a first step, we are taking action to address the failures at several boards.”…