6 Government
Law
And Politics
In 2002
The Government Of Ontario Stripped All Power
And Authority From
The School Board Trustees Because They Failed
To Balance
The Board's Budget
Paul Christie Was Appointed By
The Province
To Serve
As Supervisor Of
The Toronto District School Board
With Authority
For All Financial
And Administrative Functions Of
The Board
This Allowed Christie
To Supersede
The Authority Of Elected School Trustees
The Provincial Government Argued That
The Appointment Was Necessary
As
The TDSB Had Not Submitted
A Budget
To
The Ontario Minister Of Education
As Legally Required
Representatives Of
The TDSB Claimed That They Could Not Find
The Necessary Operating Expenses For
The Year
Given Provincial Regulations Which Prohibited Deficit Spending
Christie Balanced
The TDSB's Budget Through
A Dramatic Spending Reduction Of $90 Million
Under His Watch
The TDSB Eliminated Many Secretarial Positions
Phased Out School-community Advisors
Child
And Youth Counsellors
And Attendance Counsellors
And Reduced
The Number Of Vice-principals
Cut Outdoor Education
And Adult Education
And Re-evaluated
The Position Of Social Workers
In
The System
Christie's Staff Reports Were Not Made Public
And Some Critics Argued That There Were No Adequate Checks Or Balances
On His Authority
Blackstone Partners Carried Out
A Review
In 2006. They Submitted
A 113-page Report
In January 2007. Blackstone Partners Were "asked
To Determine If
The Facilities Division Had "effective Governance.""
The Report Showed "high Costs Of Repairs
Lots Of Workers
And Spotty Results
And Managerial �silos� That Made
It Hard
For Principals
To Figure Out Whom
To Approach
To Get
A Job Done." Blackstone Partners Gave 43 Recommendations
In
The Report
The School Board Claims
A Few Have Been Carried Out
And Others
Are
In
The Works. When Surveyed About
A Wide Range Of Topics
The Worst Result Was
The School Board�s Maintenance
And Construction Division. Eighty Percent Of Principals Didn't Believe
The Maintenance
And Construction Division Delivered Good Value For
The Money TDSB Director Chris Spence "To Use
A Football Analogy
We
Are Trying
To Move
The Yardstick
There
Is No Quick Fix."
The Toronto Star Reported That
In Recent Investigation Showed Little Has Changed Since That Review
A Secondary School Principal "raised Questions About
The $143 Cost Of Installing
A Pencil Sharpener And
The $19,000 Cost Of Installing
A Sign
On
The School's Front Lawn."
. 5 Critical reception
1.5 Statistics
7.1.3 Desjardins Canal
5.1.1 First Nations
Transportation
Phoebe St
School (1855)
Nile Academy. Toronto 2,481,494 2,503,281 2,615,060 2,731,571
2.4 Demographics of youth gang members, 8.3 Professional sports
2007 86 43 205 242
5 France Paris
France, King Township
6.2 Religion
University of Toronto Scarborough (Toronto). .
Topography
Source: Statistics Canada website Censuses of Canada 1665
to 1871
See United Province of Canada
for population after 1840
Ethnic groups. .
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