The Toronto District School Board is expected to ask the province to change legislation and make it mandatory for teachers to report violent acts such as bullying and sexual assault.
The teachers must then report to their principals, who must then contact police.
The board was also to give an update Wednesday on exactly what progress it's made towards implementing the recommendations of a million-dollar report on school safety commissioned in the wake of student Jordan Manners' death in 2007 at C.W. Jefferys Collegiate School.
The report of the School Safety Community Advisory Panel headed by lawyer Julian Falconer, reported in January. It made 126 recommendations, 94 of which were aimed at the board.
Some critics have wondered exactly what the board had done with the report's recommendations. A few trustees had opposed the report, saying it wouldn't make any substantially new findings and would take resources away from solving problems.
However, a copy of the board's report obtained by CTV Toronto claims that 80 per cent of the recommendations have been put into practice -- although a number of violent acts have occurred in recent months.
On Dec. 3, trustee Josh Matlow -- who voted against the report -- estimated the board had only implemented about 10 per cent of the recommendations.
Some measures have included:
- More security cameras in some schools
- A student hotline
A joint initiative that put police officers in more than two dozen schools wasn't part of the report's recommendations.
With a report from CTV Toronto's Galit Solomon
