Peel District School Board

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 percent of the population. The newly formed Peel County Board had 50,000 students in 114 schools and an operating budget of $41 million.

In 1973, the name changed to the "Peel Board of Education," before being changed the "Peel District School Board" in 1998.

The Peel board unveiled its current logo in September 2006. 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.^[15]

The Peel District School Board is ethnically and culturally diverse, largely due to its high student population. PDSB was among the first Canadian school boards to permit students to wear kirpans to classes. The school board does not allow religious leaders to lead prayer sessions within schools.^[20]

The Board organizes its schools into "school families." School families designate the respective feeder schools into each of the secondary schools within the PDSB. The following list is the organization from the 2018-2019 school year.^[28]

Former Vice Principal Ranjit Khatkur of South Asian background alleged that her ethnic/racial background was the reason she was overlooked for promotion to principal despite fulfilling all requirements. Khatkur launched a legal complaint at the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario alleging systematic discrimination in the Peel public board. One of many such human rights allegations made towards the board.^[64] It eventually culminated in allowing the Turner Consulting Group to release a Research Report on Hiring and Promotion at the Peel District School Board.^[65] The 111-page report led to changes in the hiring and promotion policies in the Peel Board.^[66] Previously Principals conducted interviews alone without having to demonstrate why they chose the applicants they did or document what questions they asked. The changes include having two people conducting an interview to eliminate bias, the principal is not part of the promotion process thereby eliminating their "gatekeeper" role, and begin a diversity census.^[66] The report found that it was not only ethnic or visible minorities that experienced discrimination.^[66] Tana Turner found that even some white males suspected nepotism, favoritism, or cronyism.^[66]

In 2023, the Peel District School Board attempted to remove all titles that had been published before 2008 as an "equity-based weeding process". These books were perceived as inherently lacking inclusivity and thus harming students based solely on their publication date. The district prevented these books from being donated and required them to be thrown out. There were plans to remove any book published more than fifteen years ago on an ongoing basis "to remain culturally relevant". Stephen Lecce ordered the weeding process to be halted from its completion after thousands of books had already been removed.^[67]

The board's chair is David Green and vice chair is Satpaul Singh Johal.^[68]

The Peel District School Board does not officially support the Fraser ranking system and does not rank its schools. The most up-to-date Fraser rankings can be found on the Fraser website.^[69]

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