Province sidelines trustees after more than two and a half years Peel District School BoardThe care of the institution has ended.
In a post on its website, the board said it had notified that supervision was ending and that trustees – elected in October, 2022 – would be given the power to govern again.
The Peel District School Board was placed under supervision by Ontario Minister of Education Stephen Leese in June 2020 following two serious investigations and reports of equity and governance concerns.
Province advocates drew attention to the board’s issues until the province stepped in to investigate.
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The Ontario government ordered an investigation into “pervasive racism” across the board just before the COVID-19 pandemic began.
In a statement at the time, the province said the reviewers found “an inadequate response, lack of action, and commitment to fully combat anti-Black racism, and discrimination against other minority communities, and broader equity imperatives.”
Fast forward more than two years and Bruce Rodrigues, the man appointed to run the board instead of a trustee, tells Lecce that the PDSB is “a more capable, focused and responsive board.”
In a letter dated January 3, 2023, Rodrigues said that a change in senior administration and reform at the board level meant that the PDSB could be given independence again.
The PDSB announced that it had been told that the supervision had ended on Thursday, January 19.
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