Toronto Catholic District School Board

But in boards under provincial supervision, those trustees can't do things like attend board meetings or communicate with parents.

Now a longtime Toronto Catholic District school board trustee is taking matters into her own hands.

Maria Rizzo plans to bypass the province entirely by holding her own meetings with the public.

Hi, Maria.

Two people who've been outspoken, I think rightly so, about the role of a trustee and getting things back to normal.

Joe Promoli is a Peel District School Board trustee and Marcus DiDomenico, a Toronto Catholic District School Board trustee.

And somehow, someway, they were both re-elected.

I'm kidding.

risky.

You know, so I work for the Toronto Catholic School Board and I've been on a leave doing a role at a couple of colleges, Ontario Colleges, Loyalist College, and then Sheridan.

And my stint there is done.

So I'm going to be returning to the Catholic School Board and I'm going to await my assignment.

So I pull out my Nokia slider and quickly text my buddy Ben.

Yo, Tidswell, can you look up a quick rundown for the TCDSB trustees for St. Paul's? Sure.

He texts back.

But you owe me 40 cents.

It is, the structure of school boards are still there.

The Catholic and, and French boards also have constitutional protection even.

And to have the minister just declare that maybe he won't even reinstate their powers ever is just outrageous to me.

And I, I hope that the people, uh, across those boards that are under supervision really make their voices heard.

I'm committed to representing families.

I'm committed to being an advocate.

In a moment, we'll hear from the head of the Ontario Catholic School Trustees Association about what he's hearing from parents, and we wanna hear from you, whether you're voting for trustees in a board under supervision or not.

Maybe you're not even sure whether you should vote for a trustee, or maybe you really need that advocate for your kid in the school system.

Everybody's talking a big turnout, 'cause there are key mayoral races, some juicy mayoral races, some council races.

But I'm gonna tell you, please do your research when it comes to picking a school board, wherever you live, TDSB, Toronto Catholic District School Board, where I live in Durham, and yeah, Peel as well.

She is a two-time, uh, Peel District School Board trustee and has been on our show before.

She also ran for the Ontario Liberals, uh, prior to this as well.