East York Board of Education

[2] In 1998, the EYBE was dissolved, its administration transferred to the Toronto District School Board.

[5] In 1993 the school board banned The Valour and the Horror from most classrooms, saying that it had reservations about the series' accuracy.

As of September 11, 1993 it was the only board in Metropolitan Toronto to take a public stance on the series.

These included Gail Nyberg who has gone on to administer the Daily Bread Food Bank, Jane Pitfield who would later serve as a city councilor and run, unsuccessfully as Mayor of Toronto and the future leader of the Communist Party of Canada, Elizabeth Rowley.

Schools at time of closure:[7] In 1990 the district planned to offer classes teaching Japanese and Mandarin Chinese.