Rural Education Task Force takes draft report public claiming TVDSB is trying to silence their findings
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The Thames Valley District School Board’s (TVDSB) Rural Education Task Force (RETF) is taking its findings to local municipal council agendas this week with hopes the public will get to see their two years' worth of work
The Thames Valley District School Board’s (TVDSB) Rural Education Task Force (RETF) is taking its findings to local municipal council agendas this week with hopes the public will get to see their two years' worth of work.
The RETF claims they are being silenced by TVDSB despite being appointed to dig into key issues in rural education since the summer of 2019.
A spat between the TVDSB and the RETF went public this week when RETF member and Zorra Township Mayor Marcus Ryan expressed his concerns on social media, and posted a letter from the TVDSB to Oxford County council on Twitter.
"The Board created the task force and we've consulted with hundreds and hundreds of residents who've told us what they think about rural education in the Thames Valley District School Board, and I think it's a good report," says Ryan, the Oxford County representative on the RETF.
"For whatever reason, at the 11th hour Board staff withdrew their support and canceled meetings and we were unable to complete the report by the deadline."
The last meeting with TVDSB trustees is March 22, 2022, and the RETF mandate will end at the end of the month.
"So here we are publishing it on county agendas to try and get it out there so residents can see the work they paid for," says Ryan.
