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Halton District School Board
School board in Ontario, Canada From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Halton District School Board[3] serves public school students throughout Halton Region, including the municipalities of Burlington,[4] Halton Hills,[5] Milton[6] and Oakville.[7] Its administration area is to the southwest of the city of Toronto. In 2006-2007, it served almost 50,000 students, excluding those in adult, alternative, and Community Education programs.
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Education in the former Halton County was previously governed by a framework of boards for various high school districts and public school districts associated with them.[8] In 1967, as a result of initiatives undertaken by then Minister of Education Bill Davis, work was begun to amalgamate all boards on a county-wide level throughout the Province, and such a move was recommended to the Halton County Council that year for its approval.[9] The move was opposed by the southern boards of education in Burlington and Oakville,[10] but that was overruled upon passage of mandatory legislation by the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in 1968.[11]
The Board was constituted as the Halton County Board of Education, which was established on January 1, 1969.[12] When the County was replaced by the Regional Municipality of Halton, the Board became the Halton Board of Education.[13]
As part of the province-wide restructuring of Ontario's school boards as a consequence of the passage of the Fewer School Boards Act, 1997,[14] the English-language Public District School Board No. 20 was created to take over the Region's schools.[15] It was merged with the former Board at the beginning of 1998, and was renamed as the "Halton District School Board" in 1999.[16]
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Schools
The Board operates 76 elementary schools, and 17 secondary schools, which are organized into the following areas:
- East Area (Oakville)
- North Area (Halton Hills and Milton)
- West Area (Burlington)
Secondary school enrolment and Fraser Institute provincial rankings are as follows:
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Student Trustees
As required by the Ontario Ministry of Education,[18] the following student trustees have been named to serve on the Board:
Board of Trustee Chairs & Vice-Chairs
The Halton District School Board's Board of Trustees annually elect its chair and a vice-chair at its Annual Organization Meetings (AOM). The current chair of the Halton District School is Margo Shuttleworth and the current vice-chair is Tracey Ehl Harrison.[25]
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Other
The Board also operates the following specialized facilities:
- Gary Allan High School - for adult, alternative and Community Education programs.
- Syl Apps School
Programming
The Pathways programme encourages all post-secondary options, from apprenticeship, to college, to university, to the workplace.[27] The Board has also introduced specialist high skills majors and other unique programs for students, including fully online high school credits.[28]
The International Baccalaureate programme is offered at:
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