Peel District School Board
The Peel District School Board (PDSB; known as English-Language Public District School Board No. 19 prior to 1999) is a school district that serves approximately 153,000 kindergarten to grade 12 students at more than 259 schools in the Region of Peel (municipalities of Caledon, Brampton and Mississauga) in Ontario, also to the west of Toronto.
The board employs more than 15,000 full-time staff and is the largest employer in Peel Region. As of 2023 it is the second largest school board in Canada.
In 2023, the Peel District School Board attempted to remove all titles that had been published before 2008 as an "equity-based weeding process". These books were perceived as inherently lacking inclusivity and thus harming students based solely on their publication date. The district prevented these books from being donated and required them to be thrown out. There were plans to remove any book published more than fifteen years ago on an ongoing basis "to remain culturally relevant". Stephen Lecce ordered the weeding process to be halted from its completion after thousands of books had already been removed.[1][2][3]