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In article <XhM%1.16999$YP5.26222774@tor-nn1.netcom.ca>, "Gary"
<litotesc@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Donald J. Dickson wrote in message ...
> >
> >Is there any truth to Johnson's statement that the Separate Board in
> >Toronto has a MUCH smaller administration relative to the number of
> >schools they cover than the Public Board, and they could save quite a few
> >of the schools if they cut their admin costs to an equal percentage of
> >their total budget? I'm not trying to start a war. This is just a straight
> >question from someone who doesn't know the facts.
> >
> 
>   Since the province has set a per pupil floorspace maximum and a per pupil
> floorspace cost maximum
> for each board - only the cost could be affected by cutting admin - the
> requirement to reduce square
> footage [ meterage ] would still be there.

I watched the last part of an interview on TVO Studio 2 last night of
someone from the Ministry of Ed and the Chair of the Toronto Board. The
Ministry guy's line was"if you would cut admin costs you could save
schools" (which doesn't quite mesh with the square footage thing unless
they are using a fixed rate per square foot and by dropping actual costs
below the fixed budget rate you could afford more square feet). When the
Chair asked him if the board could use the money from sold school
properties to support other programs he wouldn't give her an answer
although she asked it repeatedly. She did say that since the Toronto Board
wipes out all the previous internal boundaries there are a number of
schools that would be candidates for closure in any event.

-- 
Don Dickson

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