MARK-ALAN WHITTLE
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APPOINTED SUPERVISOR HAS A BACKBONE

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Jessica Brennan, a declared NDP candidate for the next provincial election, still doesn't get it. When she speaks of the "attack" on "underfunding" by the province, she conveniently fails to mention the real reason the books couldn't be balanced.
When one of the board's eleven different labour unions demanded more cash, the trustees caved in and borrowed the money from the bank knowing full well this would cause a massive deficit that they carried over, year after year. For example, when the trustees claim that special education is under-funded, what they really mean is that they pay twice as much for Educational Assistants as is paid by the private sector for exactly the same qualifications. Mismanagement reins supreme in the delivery of special education services contracted by the board.
I find her claim that Dr. Murray's presence damages democracy to ring as hollow as a dug-out canoe.
The government-appointed supervisor has empowered each board's senior management team to embrace an education agenda for renewal, to find their collective backbones and to learn how to foster a partnership with the trustees rather than giving in to the social agenda foisted upon them by the trustees.