By Allison Jones Ontario is set to give the minister of education power to more easily put school boards under supervision and require more boards to put police officers in schools, moves decried by boards and teachers’ unions as masking the true crisis of underfunding. Education Minister Paul Calandra introduced broad legislation Thursday, following weeks of warnings to boards that he would implement tougher oversight. “We have some boards that are working very well…they’re focused on the main mission, and other boards where I have trustees who think that they’re supposed to be writing curriculum, trustees who think that it is their job to mediate global conflicts,” he said before tabling the legislation. “What I want trustees to do is to focus on putting the resources that we provide them…
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