Heavenly
Father we pray for the Honorable Liz Sandals, MPP for Guelph. We
pray first of all as an MPP she would experience you power and wisdom as she
serves the people of Guelph. And we ask as she serves as Minister of Education,
that you will give her strength wisdom and vision as she deals with the
teachers and seeks how to best serve the teachers and students of this
province.
BIOGRAPHY
Premier Wynne appointed Liz Sandals as
Minister of Education on February 11, 2013. Liz Sandals has served as
the Parliamentary Assistant to the Ministers of Health and Long-Term
Care, Transportation, Education, Government Services, and Community
Safety and Correctional Services. She led the government’s Safe Schools
Action Team and served on the Standing Committee on Public Accounts, the
Select Committee on Mental Health and Addictions and Treasury
Board/Management Board of Cabinet.
Sandals first became involved in politics with education issues. She was elected to the local public school board in 1988 and was re-elected four times. She served as chair of the board and was elected as president of the Ontario Public School Boards’ Association (OPSBA) from 1998 to 2002. She also sat on the board of directors of the Canadian School Boards Association.
In recognition of her work as OPSBA president, she was selected as the first recipient of the “Outstanding Contribution to Education Award” by the Ontario Principals’ Council. The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health’s Centre for Prevention Sciences (London) presented Sandals with their 2009 Fourth R Award in recognition of her leadership on the Safe Schools Action Team and her significant contributions to making Ontario schools safer.
Prior to her election, Sandals worked as a computer programmer analyst and taught computer science at the University of Guelph. Sandals grew up in Guelph and received a Bachelor of Science from the University of Guelph and a Masters of mathematics from the University of Waterloo. Sandals and her husband, David, have two children, Richard and Allison, and three grandchildren.
http://lizsandals.onmpp.ca/Biography
Sandals first became involved in politics with education issues. She was elected to the local public school board in 1988 and was re-elected four times. She served as chair of the board and was elected as president of the Ontario Public School Boards’ Association (OPSBA) from 1998 to 2002. She also sat on the board of directors of the Canadian School Boards Association.
In recognition of her work as OPSBA president, she was selected as the first recipient of the “Outstanding Contribution to Education Award” by the Ontario Principals’ Council. The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health’s Centre for Prevention Sciences (London) presented Sandals with their 2009 Fourth R Award in recognition of her leadership on the Safe Schools Action Team and her significant contributions to making Ontario schools safer.
Prior to her election, Sandals worked as a computer programmer analyst and taught computer science at the University of Guelph. Sandals grew up in Guelph and received a Bachelor of Science from the University of Guelph and a Masters of mathematics from the University of Waterloo. Sandals and her husband, David, have two children, Richard and Allison, and three grandchildren.
http://lizsandals.onmpp.ca/Biography
