Grand Erie District School Board
| Grand Erie District School Board GEDSB |
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349 Erie Ave Brantford, ON N3T 5V3 Canada |
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| District information | |
| Chair of the board | Dave Dean |
| Director of education | Brenda Blancher |
| Schools | 85 |
| Budget | CA$235 million (2006) |
| District ID | B66168 |
| Students and staff | |
| Students | 28,967 |
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| Website | www |
The Grand Erie District School Board (GEDSB, known as English-language Public District School Board No. 23 prior to 1999) is a school board that has legal jurisdiction over Norfolk County, Haldimand County, and Brant County in the province of Ontario, Canada. The main headquarters are in Brantford.
The board was formed from the amalgamation of the Norfolk Board of Education, the Brant County Board of Education, and the Haldimand Board of Education in 1998. They were thinking about changing Brant District to Brant County between 1996 and 1998. The announcement of the new board was made on September as a part of the "Fewer School Boards Act." This was based on a report created in 1996 by the Bob Rae government; who recommended the changes. While the board was officially established on January 1, 1998, many of the administrative positions lasted until the beginning of May in 1998.
In 1998, under Progressive Conservative Premier Mike Harris' government, the way public schools were funded dramatically changed. Among the changes, the province replaced local boards' power to levy taxes to fund schools with a centralized system of education grants. The new regime was accompanied by a law forcing school boards to adopt balanced budgets. These changes caused school closures in the Grand Erie Board. Burford District High School closed in 2002 after eighty years in the small town, and several communities fought successfully to maintain their community-based high schools like Delhi District Secondary School.
The school board has received permissions and funding to rebuild the Brantford Collegiate Institute, the oldest school in the city. According to the school website, the right wing of the school, built in 1910, will be completely demolished and rebuilt save for the facade and the administrative hallway. The 1963 wing will be refurbished, but not destroyed. The project is scheduled to take three school semesters and two summers, and some of the students will be relocated to the closed-down Victoria Elementary School.
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