"Bill 33, The Supporting Children and Students Act, which is set to go to a final vote at Queen's Park Wednesday, grants the education minister broad power to appoint a supervisor to take over school boards a move that sidelines elected school board trustees. If passed, the bill would also require the implementation of school resource officer programs (SRO) where offered by local police services."
"The minister's appointees are Conservative insiders with no qualifications in education, who are acting without transparency and are showing absolutely zero accountability to anyone except the minister, she said in a Zoom meeting Tuesday. Pasma, who is also the Official Opposition critic for education, said students will pay the highest price if the bill is passed. Students like these are the future of our province. It's the government's responsibility to fight for them, to protect them and to support them, she said. [The government is] essentially replacing local democracy with secrecy and partisan political control."
"The government has changed all the rules to make sure that there are very few tools that we have to be able to slow this down," she said Tuesday. "There has been very little debate and there have been no"
Bill 33, The Supporting Children and Students Act, would give the education minister authority to appoint supervisors to take over school boards, sidelining elected trustees. The bill would require implementation of school resource officer programs where offered by local police services. Opposition and advocates warn the measure will silence students, undermine trust, and erode local democracy. Critics say ministerial appointees lack education qualifications, operate without transparency, and answer only to the minister. The minister introduced the bill citing financial mismanagement, deficits, and depleted reserves. Critics say the government is rushing the process with limited debate.
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