Across Ontario and Florida, school boards are not merely failing to govern. They are actively producing the conditions for their own dissolution, as chronic role confusion between trustees and superintendents triggers state intervention tha
Continue reading →Ontario's education minister has now placed multiple school boards under direct supervision or on notice, citing fractured trustee-superintendent relationships, trustee inexperience, and fiscal mismanagement — a pattern that reveals a struc
Continue reading →The democratic theory is seductive: contested elections force candidates to sharpen their positions, put their records before voters, and earn a mandate that gives them standing to govern. But when it comes to school…
Every June, school boards across the country vote to adopt budgets worth hundreds of millions of dollars — documents that determine what children are taught, who teaches them, and whether the district can keep the…