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The Halton Catholic District School Board (HCDSB) serves over 31,000 students at its 45 elementary schools, 9 secondary schools and 3 continuing education facilities. The HCDSB serves the communities of Burlington, Halton Hills, Milton, and Oakville, and has its main Board office (Catholic Education Centre) in Burlington, Ontario, Canada. The Halton Catholic District School Board is the Catholic (Separate) English language school board for the Halton region. ==History== The Halton Catholic District School Board traces its roots back to 1856 when the founder Robin Smith and Father Morgan Rex-Ryan founded St. Mary’s School – the first Catholic elementary school in Oakville to establish education programs for Catholic children in the town of Oakville. The Oakville Separate School Board was formally established in 1856. Over the next 102 years, other school boards were established in Halton and by 1958, there were four municipal school boards: *Burlington, Ontario *Oakville, Ontario *Georgetown, Ontario *Milton, Ontario These amalgamated into the single regional structure called the Halton Roman Catholic Separate School Board, which officially emerged on January 1, 1969, as a result of provincial legislation that mandated the consolidation of school boards throughout Ontario. In the years following amalgamation, the Board witnessed, not only the physical growth of its English language schools, but also the development of French language schools, and the eventual establishment of a French Language Section of the Board to govern the three French first language schools in 1986. The amalgamation of the four municipal school boards into one regional structure also opened the school system to special needs students, and as a result the Special Education Department was created. This was formalized in 1980, when Bill 82 was enacted, ensuring that school boards were to provide Special Education programs and services for all exceptional students. In the late 1970s, the school board ventured into the area of secondary education, and, assisted by the legislative provision for full funding to Ontario's Catholic secondary schools in 1986, established five secondary schools, later adding four more: *Assumption Secondary (1977) *St. Ignatius of Loyola Secondary (1982) *Bishop P. F. Reding Secondary (1986) *Notre Dame Secondary (1989) *St. Thomas Aquinas Secondary (1990) *Christ the King Secondary (2002) *Holy Trinity Secondary (2002) *Corpus Christi Secondary (2008) *Jean Vanier (2013) In 1986, the new department of Continuing Education Services was created, which first operated out of a portable classroom at the Board's Drury Lane Catholic Education Centre. Over the same years, the Board dealt with unprecedented growth - particularly in the southern half of Halton Region - culminating in increased demands on the education system and numerous changes in the education field itself. In 1998, under the Ministry of Education's province-wide restructuring of school boards, the "Halton Roman Catholic Separate School Board" became the Halton Catholic District School Board.〔 *〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Halton Catholic District School Board」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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