Ontario education minister Paul Calandra has put the Thames Valley District school board – home to 84,000 students – under Queen’s Park supervision following a controversial three-day Toronto retreat by top officials last summer that cost $38,000. Investigators, auditing the board’s books, found a lack of financial oversight in the budgeting process led to a […]
The Ministry of Education is saying little about its ongoing probe of the deficit-ridden Thames Valley school board including if the public will ever see the results.
After hefty increases in 2023, the pay for almost all senior administrator with the Thames Valley District school board dropped last year
The chair of the London District Catholic school board says he has declined an invitation to a conference at a Southwestern Ontario casino’s hotel this spring. Hosted by Ontario Catholic Supervisory Officers’ Association, the conference is being held May 14 to 16 at Caesars Windsor hotel. “If it’s a trustees’ conference without professional development, I […]
The head of a union representing 1,600 Thames Valley District school board employees says she wants to know whether trustees approved senior staff pay raises of up to 33 per cent that began in 2023.
While almost everyone in the Thames Valley District school board was safe and warm at home during a major snow event that closed all London-area schools for two days this week, one group of employees was forced to get to work anyway.
As the Thames Valley District school board develops a Queen's Park-mandated policy for evaluating its education director, the last top boss remains off work but collecting his paycheque after almost three months.