Ontario is introducing legislation to give the province more control over school boards’ academic priorities and the education system in areas of student achievement and teacher education.
Education Minister Stephen Lecce began an April 17 news conference by reading a quote from the Royal Commission of Learning, commissioned by the NDP government in 1990.
“There exists widespread unease that schools have become a kingdom onto themselves and little need to report to parents or at the world at large what they’re doing with our kids and whether they’re doing it successfully,” read Lecce.
He said over the last 30 years it has been “abundantly clear to parents that the system needs to change.”…