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Written by Sheila Dabu, The Catholic Register
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Friday, 24 April 2009 |
TORONTO - When Grade 12 student Vanessa Tillner graduates this year, she could be one of the last students to do so at the original site of St. Joseph’s Morrow Park High School.
Next year, the school celebrates its 50th anniversary at its Bayview Avenue site in the northern reaches of the city. But the Toronto Catholic District School Board says if the school’s current lease isn’t renegotiated, there will be a new all-girls school for future graduates.
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Written by Sheila Dabu, The Catholic Register
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Friday, 24 April 2009 |
 TORONTO - The conduct of school trustees is an issue that has dogged Ontario’s largest Catholic school board for the past year.
But as a provincial governance review committee considers a mandatory code of ethics and conduct, the Ontario Catholic School Trustees’ Association says these types of codes should be voluntary.
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Written by Sheila Dabu, The Catholic Register
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Thursday, 16 April 2009 |
 TORONTO - The chair of a Toronto Catholic parent group says she plans to file a complaint with Ontario’s ombudsman over the potential conflict-of-interest position of the provincially appointed supervisor for the Toronto Catholic District School Board.
In a letter to Education Minister Kathleen Wynne, Murielle Boudreau of the Greater Toronto Parent Network wrote that Norbert Hartmann “is usually in a conflict-of-interest situation whenever he presides over many aspects of the administration of the board” as his wife and daughter are Toronto Catholic school teachers.
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Written by Sheila Dabu, The Catholic Register
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Thursday, 16 April 2009 |
 Ontario Education Minister Kathleen Wynne
At least that’s what an Ontario Catholic parent group is saying about a new government web site called “School Information Finder. ”
Brian Evoy, president of the Ontario Association of Parents in Catholic Education , said the web site allows parents to choose schools based upon some discriminating indicators such as the percentage of students from lower-income families and those who don’t speak English as a first language. Provincial test scores are also a criteria.
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Written by Sheila Dabu, The Catholic Register
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Tuesday, 14 April 2009 |
TORONTO - The Toronto Catholic District School Board has a new trustee but the same old problem, says a Toronto Catholic parents group.
Murielle Boudreau, chair of the Greater Toronto Catholic Parent Network, says appointing Mary Ann Robillard, a former trustee and one-time assistant to Oliver Carroll, to the seat vacated by Carroll is like appointing her old boss.
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