HWDSB trustees Archer, Buck and Johnstone respond to findings of racism in school board probe
The agenda for a Monday evening board meeting shows how trustees Kathy Archer, Becky Buck and Alex Johnston responded to an independent report prompted by complaints of racism and exclusion from a former student trustee while trustee.
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Posted: Mar 05, 2021 9:05 AM ET | Last Updated: March 5
Trustees Carole Paikin Miller and Alex Johnstone were found to have violated the code of conduct and Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board trustees have issued sanctions against them.(Samantha Craggs/CBC)
After a month of public scrutiny, Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board (HWDSB) trustees voted to issue sanctions against two of the four trustees named in an independent report after complaints of racism and exclusion from a former student trustee.
They also unanimously recommended that one trustee Carole Paikin Miller resign.
Paikin Miller already faces sanctions that include censure, a call to publicly apologize, and more training on equity, governance and anti-racism. She s also barred from sitting on any committees until December 2021.
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Groups representing principals and managers in the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board (HWDSB) are calling on trustees to hold themselves to the same standard as they do others after four of them were named in an equity probe.
Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board (HWDSB) trustees will use an "alternative process" to look into whether a recent investigation into equity and inclusion revealed that any of them breached their own code of conduct.