Commentary
It’s about time. After years of profligate spending, ongoing budget deficits, and declining test scores in Ontario, the Ford government is finally taking action against several renegade school boards.
Specifically, the government recently appointed a supervisor to oversee the Thames Valley District School Board (TVDSD), launched financial probes of three other school boards, and ordered trustees in the Brant Haldiman Norfolk Catholic District School Board to repay their travel expenses from a pricey trip to Italy last year.
Again, this was long overdue. School trustees cannot spend money with impunity, nor should they expect the province to look the other way when they cut classroom budgets but send their senior administrators to a lavish professional development retreat at the former SkyDome Hotel in downtown Toronto, as happened in the TVDSB last year….