Subscribe to get free, fast delivery of board agendas, board highlights and news releases. Though Peel schools have long welcomed and encouraged parent involvement, school councils were legislated by the Ontario government in 1996. Schools can have another parent organization, such as a parent-teacher association, in addition to a school council.
Councils offer advice to the school principal on a number of topics.
School councils include parents, school staff, community representatives and, in some cases, students. We welcome and encourage the participation of parents and community members in our schools, and on councils. In this section, you can find out more about school councils, including how to become a member. New web site provides more resources to school councils TVOntario and the Ontario Ministry of Education are partners in the launch of a new web site, an initiative that marks a new level of collaboration between the Ministry of Education and TVOntario reflecting recent government announcements concerning TVOntario's future. The new web site will allow the province's more than forty-eight hundred school councils to communicate via the internet.