School Trustee
Perruzza campaigned for a seat on the Metro Toronto Separate School Board (i.e., the Toronto Catholic School Board) in the 1985 municipal election, and narrowly defeated incumbent trustee Tony Nigro to win the city's fifteenth ward. Early newspaper reports actually indicated that Nigro was the winner, before the final polling data was received.
In February 1986, Perruzza informed the media that board members were secretly considering cutbacks of up to $4.7 million to school various programs. He said he was making the information available because "the public should be given an opportunity to voice their concerns before the cuts are made". Some trustees criticized his decision. Perruzza later spoke against a board decision to prevent public nurses from teaching sex education in separate schools, and urged Catholic grade schools to accept non-Catholic students, describing existing bans as discriminatory.
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