Ontario’s education minister has appointed a temporary supervisor for another school board: Himself.

Paul Calandra said the Near North District School Board is incompetent and has failed students.

The province recently passed Bill 33, which gives the education minister power to more easily place school boards under supervision.

Calandra said a ministry review of the board showed significant failures in governance and leadership.

He said the review came in response to setbacks in opening a new school in Parry Sound, Ont. that forced hundreds of elementary students to begin the year in a different school while high school students started in remote learning and are now in a “half-demolished” school.

Calandra has already appointed supervisors at five other school boards due to what he c

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