“Manitoba’s new teacher oversight commissioner also leads Saskatchewan educators’ union”
A new commissioner tasked with disciplining Manitoba educators for misconduct since the start of the year was doing so while still maintaining her job as head of the Saskatchewan teachers’ union, the Free Press has learned.
Critics call it a major conflict of interest that brings into question the independence and impartiality of Manitoba’s new teacher oversight commission.
“The fact that she’s doing two jobs at once, and one is the head of a teacher union, when you’re supposed to be adjudicating cases involving teacher misconduct, that’s a massive conflict of interest,” said Cameron Hauseman, an assistant professor of educational administration at the University of Manitoba.
