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Government-appointed supervisor fires director of education at government-supervised school board

Opposition critics say the Toronto District School Board firing its director of education, Clayton La Touche, will just cost the beleaguered board more money.

Published Dec 12, 2025 at 7:34pm

Thomas Desormeaux

Government-appointed supervisor fires director of education at government-supervised school board

Canada's largest school board is considering a drastic change to its practice of steering high schoolers toward either "academic" or "applied" courses, with a proposal to have nearly all students in Grades 9 and 10 learn at the same level. A Toronto District School Board sign is shown in front of a high school in Toronto on Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn

The legislature may be on holiday but the Ministry of Education is still working.

The provincially-appointed supervisor for one of six provincially-supervised school boards has fired the Toronto District School Board’s director of education.

Rohit Gupta, a board supervisor appointed by the Ministry of Education, said in an email to staff that he and the ministry made the decision to “make a leadership change” and dismiss director Clayton La Touche in hopes of setting “TDSB up for success in the years ahead.”

Government-appointed supervisor fires director of education at government-supervised school board

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