Three trustees with the Waterloo Area District Faculty Board have referred to as for a public city corridor to get enter on methods to “re-calibrate our board’s objectives.”
A letter signed by trustees Invoice Cody, Mike Ramsay and Cindy Watson was shared on social media earlier this month.
It comes after director of schooling jeewan chanika’s sudden departure from the board in December. The college board has by no means mentioned why chanika left and chanika has not responded to requests for remark.
Of their letter, the trustees say they’re “constrained from commenting” on chanika’s “sudden departure.”
“Nonetheless, in our opinion, we now have a chance to revisit the elemental objectives and academic methods of our [your] faculty board,” the letter says.
Cody, Ramsay and Watson describe themselves as “average conservative members” of the board they usually say it is “well-known that we’re not followers of particular curiosity agendas, whether or not from the far left or the far proper.”
The letter says the thought of a city corridor assembly was raised by Luisa D’Amato, who’s a columnist for The Document newspaper. They are saying they assist that decision “to acquire native public enter as we put together to make the required choices that ought to lead us to re-calibrate our board’s objectives.”
A discover of movement at the moment doesn’t seem on the agenda for Monday’s committee of the entire assembly. The agenda notes any notices of movement have to be referred to the agenda improvement committee.
Ontario Chronicle reached out to Cody, Ramsay and Watson to request an interview. None responded to the request.
Maedith Radlein, chair of the board of trustees for the Waterloo Area District Faculty Board, issued an announcement to Ontario Chronicle by the board’s communication workplace to say trustees and employees are “totally dedicated to scholar achievement and well-being.”
She famous the board wouldn’t launch any additional particulars about chanika’s departure and pointed to a December put up on the board’s web site about Scott Miller being named interim director of schooling.
“Any trustee can use the method outlined within the bylaws to convey a movement to have a city corridor. There will probably be no additional touch upon the request for a city corridor.” Radlein mentioned.
