MONTREAL, JANUARY 9, 2013 – The Canadian School Boards Association is pleased to see the results of the study “School Boards Matter: A Pan-Canadian study of school district governance” by Bruce Sheppard, Gerald Galway, Jean Brown and John Wiens.
The full report, School Boards Matter; A Pan-Canadian Study of School District Governance is available along with a CSBA Executive Summary and a list of other studies with complementary reading.
This important and timely study on school district governance, counters recent literature that has called school boards “wasteful hierarchies” and deals head on with political trends affecting public education across Canada. At the heart of the study, the authors provide convincing evidence that in fact, effective and successful school boards do matter to the education of our children.
The authors draw a strong correlation between effective school boards and successful public school systems and state that “strong and effective boards are essential to maintaining a meaningful and sustainable public school system”. They provide clear answers to the question “What are the attributes of effective school boards in Canada?”.
This study will be of particular interest to local school board trustees/commissioners across Canada, Provincial School Boards Associations and members of the CSBA Board of Directors.
CSBA President, Sandi Urban Hall welcomed the report and stated, “Boards of education use a wealth of research to strengthen their education practices and decisions. This report gives school boards data that will help strengthen school board governance and as a result, student success”.
For more information, contact the CSBA at valerie.mcleod@cdnsba.org.
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