Politics and its Discontents

Having worked as a teacher for 30 years, I am well-aware of the politics that pervades and blights education. The higher one goes up the lad...

To really understand the mindset of educational institutions today, you have to appreciate one fact: despite nonstop rhetoric to the contrar...

I have written ten previous posts about Chris Spence. the disgraced former Director of the Toronto District School Board, whose fall from...

I realize that the subject of Chris Spence is likely of little or no interest to readers of this blog outside of the immediate area, but I...

When it is proclaimed by Chris Spence , the disgraced former Director of the Toronto District School Board who lost his job earlier this yea...

I'm certainly glad that Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne is adhering to her commitment to a new way of doing politics . I'm sure ...

It is hardly an insight to observe that ours is a world that bears witness to institutional and organizational failures on a massive sc...

Well, there can be little doubt that both The Toronto District School Board and the Ontario Ministry of Education have fully embraced t...

As I have mentioned in this blog before, one of the many reasons I respect The Toronto Star is that it doesn't let its adherence to...

As I suspected, after yesterday's Star story about the Toronto District School Board's outrageous demand for $3.6 million to...

The Toronto Star, after conducting an excoriating investigative series on the fiscal incompetence of the Toronto District School Board...

Regarded by some as a master of platitudes, Toronto District School Board Director Chris Spence says that things are getting better. ...

With all of the finger-pointing in the Star's latest installment on the Toronto District School Board's questionable relationshi...

While hardly surprising, the decision of TDSB chair, Chris Bolton, to have a facilities committee look into The Star's embarrassing ...

What is the priority of organizations that are mired in embarrassing public revelations about fraudulent spending of taxpayers' mone...

Unless the Toronto District School Board is staffed by a raft of incompetents, it has to have known what is going on. As I wrote in ...

One of the Atkinson Principles guiding The Toronto Star is to champion the rights of working people; to my ongoing delight and gratific...