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The Peel District School Board is a school district that serves approximately 154,000 kindergarten to grade 12 students at more than 253 schools in the Region of Peel in Ontario.The board employs more than 15,000 full-time staff and is the largest employer in Peel Region. As of 2012 it is the second largest school board in Canada.According to Ontario's public sector salary disclosure list for 2015, Peel Board has 349 names on the "Sunshine List." This is a list of employees who make more than $100,000 a year.Peter Joshua is the current Director of Education.HistoryIn 1970, 10 local boards came together as the Peel County Board of Education. In 1969, the board served a community of a quarter million residents—20 per cent of today's population. The newly formed Peel County Board had 50,000 students in 114 schools and an operating budget of $41 million. (2009 annual report)In 1973, the name changed to the Peel Board of Education. The current name, Peel District School Board, was approved in 1998.On September 1, 2006, the school board announced that on Wednesday September 6, 2006, would launch a new website in 25 languages, all spoken in the Peel Region, to help parents who have a first language other than English.Directors John Fraser, -1988, namesake of John Fraser Secondary School Bob Lee, 1988-c. 1993, namesake of Robert J. Lee Public School Harold Braithwaite, 1994-2002, namesake of Harold M. Brathwaite Secondary School Jim Grieve, 2002-2009, namesake of James Grieve Public School Tony Pontes, 2010-2017, namesake of Tony Pontes Public School