The Vancouver School Board must resign or the Minister of Education should remove them…
The Globe and Mail
“This is not an emergency,” Margaret MacDiarmid said after meeting with trustees. “This is a situation where poor choices that the board has made have diverted millions of dollars from the classroom to other areas.”…
B.C.’s education minister has denied a request for emergency funding by Vancouver School Board trustees, saying the cash crisis the board is facing is their own fault.
…Ms. MacDiarmid encouraged parents to read the report online.
“If I were a parent in Vancouver I would be very concerned because I've been told over the years that there's not enough money and what this report demonstrates is that the money that is there has not been managed well.”
Ms. MacDiarmid said other school boards, including those in the Okanagan Similkameen, Grand Forks and Surrey, have done a relatively good job of dealing with their budgets.
“There's a striking difference in the way that different boards are governed,” she said.
The Controller General report on the Vancouver School Board released last week which revealed the obsessive compulsive tendencies of the school board and its neurotic fantasy of advocating for children in the district to the abrogation of its duties financially has put on full display why the school board should be dismissed….
The report is clear in its delineations of extremely poor fiscal management which cannot be hidden behind a façade of “caring for children”….Spending into oblivion is irresponsible and not caring…not caring for financial obligations or children…
The Vancouver School Board has done such a horrid job that one must consider that they have either used children as political pawns, are outrageously incompetent…or delusional in their perceived role as a school board…Why is it every other school board in the province has managed to deal with the realities of today’s economy but Vancouver thinks it is Greek government workers? How bad are things…
"Despite management advice to support longer-term decision-making, some of the board's choices have created significant budget pressures of about $8 million this year."
"Up to $11.8 million additional revenue and cost-savings opportunities have been identified, including more opportunities for shared services."
"Excess space is not being maximized. VSB could achieve up to $5.7 million in annual savings by closing and consolidating schools."
"The board focuses on advocacy at the expense of stewardship of the district. The board must focus on fulfilling responsibilities for education services and limit advocacy activities, noting the appropriateness of using district resources to fund advocacy work is highly questionable."
"Trustees have not demonstrated that they have the management capacity to effectively govern the district. Consistent concerns about the ethical and organizational culture at the VSB were strongly evident, as was the perceived lack of trust between the board and district management."
"The board's lack of a long-term vision and plan has led to short-term decisions rather than long-term planning of the district, finances and assets."
Key phrase “advocacy at the expense of stewardship”…and this is indeed an expensive error…
The Vancouver School Board must be expelled…
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RIGHT ON!!!!!
The school board has failed math!
I don’t know who is worse the school board or the teachers union
Fire the school board!
There was a comment in one article about unions and another about "advocacy". Do y'all have the out of control public sector unions up there? And what does "advocacy" mean in practice?
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