""I think everybody deserves some certainty," Calandra told CBC Radio's Metro Morning Friday. "I'm 100 per cent looking at the elimination of the trustee position.""
""The ones that we have taken over have had challenges by and large, where trustees have just refused to make the right decision," said Calandra."
Ontario education minister Paul Calandra says he will have a plan by year-end to potentially eliminate elected school trustees across the province. He asserts eliminating trustees will bring more resources into classrooms, end division within school boards, and simplify parent access to the system. The province recently appointed supervisors to five school boards and put all 72 boards on notice to direct funds to classrooms after alleging financial malfeasance and trustee failures to preserve surpluses. Critics including parents, teachers, and former trustees warn that removing trustees would strip parents of democratic advocacy and point to chronic underfunding as a core issue.
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