The Education Act, 1998 outlines the statutory powers of school boards to hire staff.
a) Section 171(3) appoint employees
“subject to Part XI, appoint and remove such officers and servants and, subject to Part X, appoint and remove such teachers, as it considers expedient, determine the terms on which such officers, servants and teachers are to be employed, prescribe their duties and fix their salaries, except that in the case of a secretary of a board who is a member of the board, the board may pay only such compensation for his or her services as is approved by the electors at a meeting of the electors;”
