Anyone who is wondering why the Doug Ford government expects to have political cover for making sweeping changes to Ontario’s school boards, effectively neutering the authority of elected trustees in the process, need only look to one of the pages in the background document that was released on Monday.
On it, under the heading “Holding School Board Trustees Accountable,” the government says that many trustees have run huge deficits and “wasted public funds” that were intended for the classroom.
