1.Trustees are the community’s advocates for public education.<\/p>\n
2. Trustees represent interests of parents and students in the area.<\/p>\n
3. Our Trustees play a key leadership role in the TDSB in making sure there is accountability for student success and well-being.<\/p>\n
4. As members of a school board, Trustees work to put in place programs and policies that represent the needs of their community.<\/p>\n
5.Trustees help decide how to spend funds they receive from the Province for things like building and maintaining schools and purchasing school supplies.<\/p>\n
6. Trustees sit on a variety of committees with significant responsibilities such as the Special Education Advisory Committee and The French as a Second Langauage Advisory Committee.<\/p>\n
(Sources: http:\/\/elections.ontarioschooltrustees.org\/files\/en_2014_Elections_Guide-All_Candidates.pdf<\/a> and http:\/\/www.peopleforeducation.ca\/faq\/what-are-the-responsibilities-of-trustees\/61)<\/a>.<\/p>\n Come out on October 14<\/strong> at 7pm to the Allenby Library for an All Candidates meeting. You will have a chance to listen to the candidates and ask questions. Make an informed choice at the October 27 Municipal Election.<\/p>\n For more information on each candidate, see MyVote – Who is running in my ward<\/a> or at the 2014 Ontario Municipal & School Board Elections website<\/a>. Note that we are in TDSB Ward 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 1.Trustees are the community’s advocates for public education. 2. Trustees represent interests of parents and students in the area. 3. Our Trustees play a key leadership role in the TDSB in making sure there is accountability for student success and well-being. 4. As members of a school board, Trustees work to put in place programs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[408,397],"class_list":["post-4551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-awareness","tag-municipal-elections","tag-trustee"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4552,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4551\/revisions\/4552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}