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Randall Denley: Ontario's complicated, fractured school system is about to get worse
Some communities will get full trustee representation, while others will have limited trustee roles or none at all
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Ontario Education Minister Paul Calandra’s big reform announcement Monday meets the needs of this week, but it’s a lot less clear that it will stand the test of time.
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After spending months criticizing inept trustees and dropping broad hints that their positions could be eliminated altogether, the minister had to do something or look foolish.
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Calandra finessed the situation with a multi-part plan that purports to hold school boards accountable while wisely tacking on a couple of sensible ideas to divert public and media attention from the main point. Mandatory exams and tying marks to school attendance are rational and useful policies, but they have nothing to do with school-board accountability.
On the central issue of what role trustees should play, Calandra has achieved the near impossible goal of making the province’s byzantine, fractured education structure even more complicated.
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