Peel District School Board
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Mississauga, Ontario Canada |
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| District information | |
| Chair of the board | Janet McDougald |
| Director of education | Tony Pontes |
| Schools | 198 elementary schools 36 secondary schools |
| Budget | CA$1.699 billion (2014-2015) |
| District ID | B66125 |
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| Elected trustees | Brampton (Carrie Andrews, David Green, Kathy McDonald, Suzanne Nurse), Caledon (Stan Cameron), Mississauga (Janet McDougald, Sue Lawton, Rick Williams, Nokha Dakroub, Brad MacDonald, Robert Crocker) |
| Student trustees | Ranbir Singh, Omar Baboolal |
| Website | www |
The Peel District School Board (known as English-Language Public District School Board No. 19 prior to 1999) is a school district that serves approximately 155,000 kindergarten to grade 12 students at more than 240 schools in the Region of Peel (municipalities of Caledon, Brampton and Mississauga) in Ontario.
The board employs more than 15,000 full-time staff and is the largest employer in Peel Region. As of 2012 it is the second largest school board in Canada.
According to Ontario's public sector salary disclosure list for 2015, Peel Board has 349 names on the "Sunshine List." This is a list of employees who make more than $100,000 a year.
Tony Pontes is the current Director of Education.
In 1970, 10 local boards came together as the Peel County Board of Education. In 1969, the board served a community of a quarter million residents—20 per cent of today's population. The newly formed Peel County Board had 50,000 students in 114 schools and an operating budget of $41 million. (2009 annual report)
In 1973, the name changed to the Peel Board of Education. The current name, Peel District School Board, was approved in 1998.
On September 1, 2006, the school board announced that on Wednesday September 6, 2006, would launch a new website in 25 languages, all spoken in the Peel Region, to help parents who have a first language other than English.
The Peel board unveiled its current logo in September 2005. In November 2003, the board approved the creation of the Picture the Future committee—a cross section of staff and trustees—to oversee the creation of the first new logo since 1969. The committee worked with design firm Hambly and Woolley Inc, selected through a competitive RFP process, to develop a new visual identity for approval by the board. The design was based on the feedback from over 500 people including staff, students, parents, representatives of faith and culture communities and unions and federations.
In 2009, the Peel board opened three We Welcome the World Centres, located in Brampton, Malton, and Mississauga. As an initiative to bring awareness to the We Welcome the World Centres, Ruth Thompson Middle School created a video that montage of various students, teachers and staff saying the word " Peace" in 2008 and "Welcome" in 2009 in their native tongue. The centres help newcomer families with school-aged children register for school and get settled in Canada. Welcome Centre staff provide assistance and information about free services in many languages.
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