That’s the headline-grabbing stuff, but the proposed changes would limit trustee oversight over even the perfectly justifiable kind of education expenses. The current board position of director of education would be replaced by a chief executive officer, who would develop the school-board budget, with trustee input — but nothing more authoritative than that. If trustees did not agree with the budget as designed by their board’s chief executive, the matter would go to the education minister to decide. One guess which way that intervention is likely to go.