Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Public school board boss defends ‘integrity’ of trustees

‘We haven’t handed anything off to anybody’

By Matthew McClure, Calgary Herald

The city’s public school board is poised to adopt a new policy Tuesday night that would no longer require trustees to approve hikes in busing fees, annual allocations to schools or expenditures over $500,000.

But the chairwoman of the Calgary Board of Education says that under the new policy — slated for final reading at Tuesday’s meeting — elected representatives will still have the capacity to be informed of and deal with problems.

“Our board has integrity,” Pat Cochrane told last week’s meeting of the Calgary Association of Parent and School Councils. “We haven’t handed anything off to anybody.”

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