Toronto School Board Votes Against Investigating Plagiarized Report Presented to Trustees

Published on March 7, 2024

The Toronto District School Board (TDSB) has voted against investigating a report that was found to be full of errors and plagiarism. The report was a literature review entitled “Literature Review on Meritocratic Perceptions in Public Education and Diverse Learning Opportunities.” It was used by the TDSB to support a lottery system they had implemented in 2022 for specialized high schools. However, parents asked Marcin Peski, a University of Toronto economics professor, to analyze the report. Mr. Peski found false citations, unattributed quotes, and plagiarized text in the report. It was estimated that about 20 percent of the report’s citations were false and half of it was copied from other sources....

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