Past Campaigns

What is a Peel District School Board

Student Worth?

In February 2010, Peel District School Board trustees brought school council members together to share information about the inequity in Ontario school board funding. In addition to learning how Peel board students are funded well below the provincial average, school council members were given tools to help achieve funding equity for students in the Peel board.

The provincial funding model puts the Peel board at a disadvantage. Currently, Peel students receive less funding than students in most other boards in Ontario. In fact, the Peel board receives $934 less per pupil than the provincial average, a gap that has nearly doubled since 2002.

In the fall of 2010, the board worked with school councils and community partners to help make clear to the province that Peel students need fairer funding. The response was very positive and the board has seen some results. Notes Janet McDougald, Peel board chair, “The province has begun to use more recent census data, resulting in additional funding. However, they have chosen to phase in the new funding over four years and the board will not receive $18 million that our students deserve. The bottom line—it is unacceptable that our per pupil funding position in the province has not improved.”

Trustees are asking the Ministry of Education to:

fund the actual high needs students the board serves in special education
revisit the early years grant funding to reflect the board's preschool population

Trustees have met and expressed concerns over the issue—which has now become critical—with the ministry on several occasions. The following are some of the ways the Peel board has raised the issue of per pupil funding with the ministry and members of the Peel community.

Letters to the Ministry of Education

Letter to The Honourable Kathleen Wynne, Minister of Education – Jan. 14, 2008

Letter to The Honourable Kathleen Wynne, Minister of Education – July 17, 2007

Letter to The Honourable Kathleen Wynne, Minister of Education – Nov. 24, 2006

Letter to The Honourable Kathleen Wynne, Minister of Education – Sept. 20, 2006

Letter to The Honourable Sandra Pupatello, Minister of Education – April 21, 2006
Letter to The Honourable Gerard Kennedy, Minister of Education – Jan. 24, 2006

Letter to The Honourable Gerard Kennedy, Minister of Education – Jan. 27, 2005

Speeches and presentations

Janet McDougald, Chair of the Board – Budget meeting remarks – June 2012 – speech

Janet McDougald, Chair of the Board – Budget meeting remarks – June 2011– speech

Janet McDougald, Chair of the Board – Budget meeting remarks – June 2010 – speech

Janet McDougald, Chair of the Board – Budget meeting remarks – June 2009 – speech

Janet McDougald, Chair of the Board – Inaugural remarks – December 2009 – speech

Janet McDougald, Chair of the Board – School Council Information Evening – February 2010 – speech PowerPoint

Report to Board

Carla Kisko, Associate Director of Operational Support Services – Spring 2009

News releases

June 12, 2012