TDSB cancelled iPhone purchases to save money, accuses Ford government of misinformation

Robin Pilkey

The Toronto District Schoolhouse Board (TDSB) says the Ford authorities spread false information near information technology cancelling a $5 one thousand thousand cellphone contract only subsequently it was contacted by the media.

The cellphone contract plan had been in place to purchase iPhones for the administration team.

Ontario Progressive Bourgeois Teaching Minister Lisa Thompson told The Toronto Star that "to have a schoolhouse lath choose to buy top-of-the-line iPhones for their administration team is absolutely unacceptable in today'south fiscal reality."

Robin Pilkey, the TDSB chair, said that the board was in early stages of the plan, but cancelled it a day before the Toronto Sun contacted the board. She said the program was cancelled equally part of the board'southward budget-balancing efforts.

"Information technology is also pretty clear that the regime was incorrect when information technology insinuated that the TDSB only cancelled a cellphone [request for proposals] in one case information technology was asked about information technology," Pilkey told The Toronto Star.

Thompson said the Ford government wants to restore public confidence in the school board's spending practices, and will enquire the TDSB to cancel whatsoever spending plans that would take money away from classrooms.

NDP Member of Provincial Parliament Marit Stiles, a former TDSB trustee and the teaching critic, told The Toronto Star in an email that "the minister actually needs to exist corrected on that detail, considering in fact she's doing a great disservice to the Toronto District School Board. She knows perfectly well that did not happen and it is non happening."

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Source: The Toronto Star