Ontario Premier Doug Ford appointed supervisors to take charge of five provincial school boards this year, including the Toronto District School Board (TDSB), the Toronto Catholic District School Board and the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board. His Progressive Conservative government wants education to be focused on the classroom, and the remaining boards have basically been warned to shape up or ship out.

The move follows reports of enormous amounts of wasteful spending and failure to ensure student safety on a field trip. News that administrators of the Thames Valley District School Board went on a retreat at a luxury hotel when the board is struggling financially raised plenty of eyebrows. So did Brant Haldimand Norfolk Catholic District School Board trustees taking a $4

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