Toronto Catholic District School Board
Toronto Catholic District School Board
TCDSB |
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Board office location | 80 Sheppard Ave. East, Toronto, Ontario |
Communities served | all of the city of Toronto |
Number of schools | 201: 168 elementary schools, 31 secondary schools and 2 combined (elementary and secondary) schools.[1] |
2006-07 budget (CAD $ millions) |
$830 million approx.[2] |
Number of students | 87,000 |
Chair of the Board | Oliver Carroll |
Elected Trustees | 12 |
http://www.tcdsb.org/ |
The Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB) is one of three school boards in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is one of two English boards of education in the Toronto area.
For French language schools see Conseil scolaire de district catholique Centre-Sud.
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Overview
The TCDSB has 168 elementary schools, 33 secondary schools and 3 combined (elementary and secondary) schools. It serves the former cities of Scarborough, North York, York, East York, old city of Toronto and Etobicoke.
History
Formerly the Metropolitan Separate School Board, the TCDSB was formed in 1998 as the school board that administers most of the publicly funded Roman Catholic schools in Toronto, Ontario, Canada (there is also a French immersion Catholic school board).
Trustees
The TCDSB has 12 wards and 12 trustees and 1 student trustee. The Chair of the Board, the Vice-Chair and the Honorary Treasurer are elected at the Inaugural meeting of the Board, and serve for one year.
As of January 11, 2006 they were:
Chair of the Board Oliver Carroll
Vice-Chair of the Board Angela Kennedy
Honorary Treasurer Ann Andrachuk
Controversies
While Catholic high schools are funded by the provincial crown, making them open to any students who wish to attend, elementary schools do not have to enrol non-Catholic students. Many argue that the practice of fully funding separate schools exclusively for the Catholic faith is discriminatory to other religions (i.e.the United Nations has twice chastised the province for this policy). Supporters of the current Catholic education system point out that it has existed, in some form or another, since Confederation, and that the Constitution Act, 1867, enshrines the right to government-funded religious education to all Catholics.
Recently, the issue of government funding for religious schools has become a major political issue (see Ontario general election, 2007), with John Tory's PCs supporting an extension of funding to all religious schools, Dalton McGuinty's Liberals and Howard Hampton's NDP supporting the status quo, and Frank de Jong's Greens alone calling for elimination of public funding for all religious schools (including Catholic Schools).
Secondary schools
List of TCDSB secondary schools:
- Archbishop Romero Catholic Secondary School
- Bishop Allen Academy
- Blessed Mother Teresa Catholic Secondary School
- Brebeuf College School
- Cardinal Carter Academy for the Arts
- Cardinal Newman Catholic Secondary School
- Chaminade College School
- Francis Libermann Catholic Secondary School
- Loretto Abbey Catholic Secondary School
- Mary Ward Catholic Secondary School
- Michael Power/St. Joseph High School
- Neil McNeil Catholic High School
- Notre Dame Catholic Secondary School (Toronto)
- Pope John Paul II Catholic Secondary School
- Senator O'Connor College School
- St. Joseph's College School
- St. Michael's Choir School
- St. Patrick's Catholic Secondary School
Combined Schools
- Cardinal Carter Academy for the Arts (Grades 7-12)
- Francis Libermann Catholic High School (Grades 7-12)
- St. Michael's Choir School (Grades 3-12)
Elementary schools
List of TCDSB elementary schools:
- Holy Spirit Elementary School
- James Culnan Catholic School
- Our Lady of Sorrows Elementary School
- Our Lady of Lourdes Elementary School
- St. Agnes Elementary School
- St. Bernard Elementary School
- Sts. Cosmas and Damian
- St. Denis Elementary School
- St. Edward Elementary School
- St. Fidelis Elementary School
- St. Gabriel Elementary School
- St. Helen Elementary School
- St. James Elementary School
- St. Lawrence Elementary School
- St. Michael Elementary School
- St. Michael's Choir School
- St. Paul Elementary School
- St. Raphael Elementary School
- St. Rita Elementary School
- St. Timothy Elementary School
See also
- Toronto District School Board - The public school system
- Conseil scolaire de district du Centre-Sud-Ouest - South-West Central District School Board
- Conseil scolaire de district catholique Centre-Sud - South-West Central Catholic District School Board