The TDSB will eliminate 40 vice-principal jobs next year
The Ontario school board is among eight that have been taken over by the province
The Toronto District School Board has decided to eliminate the jobs of 40 vice-principals across its jurisdiction. The change will take effect when the next school year begins.
In an email to CP24, a representative from the TDSB did not disclose exactly which schools would be affected but said smaller schools would move toward a shared framework in which some full-time vice-principals will oversee two schools instead of one.
“Every spring, the TDSB goes through a process to determine how staff are placed in schools for the upcoming year,” Ryan Bird, the TDSB’s executive officer, communications and public affairs, said. “This planning helps ensure that every school has the staff required to support the needs of students.”
Bird said 28 positions are being cut because the board’s one-time pandemic-related funding has ended, and the other 12 due to declining enrolment.
The TDSB is one of eight Ontario school boards that have been taken over by the province, with Ontario Education Minister Paul Calandra alleging financial mismanagement and infighting among school personnel.
CP24 cited a 2023 report published by the Toronto School Administrators’ Association, which concluded that vice-principals already find their jobs to be “increasingly demanding, stressful and unmanageable.”
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