abstract:School authority is a type of school board created by the Ontario government's Ministry of Education to administer to smaller, more isolated school boards and hospital school boards. This definition was created on January 1, 1998 renaming 37 school boards.
Indeed, one of the boldest moves (or most brazen, according to your view) is the "presumption" that any newly created school will be an academy or a free school, not a local authorityschool.
If a child is refused a place at a school by a local education authority or school governing body, parents do have a right to a formal appeals procedure, usually established by the authority.