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Jun 21, 2024 · The Supreme Court of Canada ruled Friday that public school boards in Ontario are an arm of government and cannot "disavow their constitutional obligations" under the Charter of Rights and...
Jun 25, 2024 · The SCC held that the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (Charter) applies to Ontario public school boards and that all actions carried on by Ontario public school boards, including their agents and delegates, are subject to Charter scrutiny.
The Supreme Court rules that Ontario public school board teachers are protected from unreasonable search and seizure in the workplace under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Jun 28, 2024 · A recent decision from the Supreme Court of Canada, York Region District School Board v. Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario, 2024 SCC 22, determined that the Charter applies to Ontario public school boards as they are inherently governmental under the framework set out in Eldridge v.
- Introduction
- The Board – Working Together
- Codes of Conduct
- Enforcement of The Code of Conduct
- Sample Process - Enforcement of Code of Conduct
- Conclusion
School board trustees are leaders of their school boards and advocates for a strong education system. A clear understanding of a school board trustee’s role and responsibilities is fundamental to good governance. A trustee is a member of a board, not a member of a parliament, and it is important for both trustees and the general public to understan...
Boards of trustees provide policy direction to their schools to ensure opportunity, excellence and accountability in the education system. By modeling collaboration and cooperation, they promote public confidence in the board and in the public school system. A board of trustees is a group of individual members who can only be effective when they ar...
Boards are required in Ontario Regulation 246/18: Members of School Boards – Code of Conductto adopt a code of conduct that applies to the members of the board. The code of conduct is designed for trustees by trustees. It is a policy that demonstrates how trustees have determined to regulate themselves. Student trustees are not required by law to h...
The enforcement provisions relating to a trustee code of conduct are set out in the Education Act [s.218.3]. A trustee who has reasonable grounds to believe that another trustee, who is a member of their board, has breached the board’s code of conduct may bring the alleged breach to the attention of the board of trustees. If an alleged breach of th...
Note: what follows is a sample enforcement process adapted from the Ontario Public School Boards’ Association’s Trustee Code of Conduct and Enforcement Policy Template. This sample process is presented in “plain language” and builds on the code of conduct enforcement requirements found in the Education Act [s.218.3]. Boards can seek legal counsel w...
The code of conduct should contain well-articulated guidelines for appropriate interaction, participation and respectful communication. Trustees may ask the question: “Is our board behaviour a model for how the children in our district should behave now and in the future?”An effective board is a cohesive, collaborative decision-making body that set...
Aug 18, 2022 · School boards should beware that searches of school board owned computers must be done in a manner that is “reasonable” – i.e., based on sound justification and in a manner that minimizes their privacy impact. This has been the law since the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in R. v. Cole (Cole).
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Usually, courts must balance this right against the public’s right to be protected from crime and wrongdoing. Court decisions in Canada have supported the right of school administrators to search students or their property when there are reasonable grounds for suspecting some wrongdoing.
