North York Board of Education

North York Board of Education
District 13
Board office location 5050 Yonge Street, North York, Ontario, M2N 5N8, Canada
Board identifier NYBE
Chair of the Board Gerri Gershon
Director of Education Marguerite Jackson
Elected Trustees 14
The TDSB Education Centre, located at 5050 Yonge Street, is the headquarters of the Toronto District School Board; it formerly housed NYBE offices

The North York Board of Education (NYBE, commonly known as School District 13) is the former public school board for the former city of North York in Ontario, Canada.

In 1998, the provincial Government of Ontario passed legislation which amalgamated North York into the City of Toronto. As part of the amalgamation process, the NYBE ceased to exist. Today, administration of schools in North York is handled by the Toronto District School Board. The NYBE building was located at 5050 Yonge Street,[1] in the same complex as Mel Lastman Square, the former North York City Hall. This building now houses the Toronto District School Board offices.

Schools

This is a listing of secondary schools that were within this district before the merger.[2]

Secondary schools

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French-language schools

Previously the district operated two French-language schools in addition to English-language schools. As of May 1980 the district operated two of the seven public French-language schools in Metropolitan Toronto, with the other five being operated by the Metropolitan Separate School Board (now the Toronto Catholic District School Board). The North York school board required that a potential student must know French before being admitted to a French-speaking school.[4] The Conseil des écoles françaises de la communauté urbaine de Toronto (CEFCUT) assumed control of French-language education in the Toronto area on 1 December 1988.[5]

In 1977 the school board voted to build a school out of surplus portable buildings on the site of the Ecole Etienne Brule, spending $120,000 to construct the school. The residents in the area where it was being constructed were against the proposal because 172 children from the area were bussed 2.4 kilometres (1.5 mi) away to another school, and the new school in their community would not serve them. At nighttime, when workers tried to move the portables onto the site, some residents tried to obstruct their efforts.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Home page. (Archive) North York Board of Education. Retrieved on November 12, 2010. "5050 Yonge Street, North York, Ontario Canada, M2N 5N8, 416-395-4661"
  2. ↑ "North York School Directory." (Archive) North York Board of Education. July 3, 1997. Retrieved on November 12, 2010.
  3. ↑ "Secondary School Directory." (Archive) North York Board of Education. July 3, 1997. Retrieved on November 12, 2010.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Toronto has 7 public schools for French-speaking children." The Canadian Press (CP) at Montreal Gazette. Wednesday May 21, 1980. p. 66. Retrieved from Google News (66 of 141) on July 24, 2013.
  5. ↑ Behiels, Michael D. La francophonie canadienne: renouveau constitutionnel et gouvernance scolaire (Issue 12 of Collection Amérique française, ISSN 1480-4735). University of Ottawa Press, 2005. ISBN 2760306003, 9782760306004. p. 133. "Le Conseil des écoles françaises de la communauté urbaine de Toronto (CEFCUT), le 1er décembre 1988, s'établit dans un climat beaucoup moins acrimonieux qu'à Ottawa-Carleton. Jusqu'en 1987, les conseils scolaires de Toronto, North York et Scarborough ainsi que leurs CCLF gèrent les classes et les écoles de langue française qui accueillent près de 1700 élèves."

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