Catholic Trustee
Rizzo returned to political life in the 2003 municipal election, winning a seat on the Toronto Catholic School Board. She criticized a child enrollment campaign organized by the board in 2005, describing it as a waste of money at a time when many schools were in need of physical repairs. She later opposed the board's proposal to hire Warren Kinsella's Navigator Ltd. firm to do consultancy work with the provincial government, describing the $100,000 expenditure as a waste of money.
In 2006, Rizzo endorsed a motion which requires the Catholic school board to guarantee that its uniforms are not made in sweatshops. She has criticized the provincial government's requests for reduced board expenditures, and during the summer of 2006 described former provincial education minister Sandra Pupatello as having "more money than brains".
Rizzo also works as executive assistant to councillors Howard Moscoe and John Filion. She was easily re-elected to the Catholic School Board in the 2006 municipal election.
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