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Le privé toujours plus populaire

(Journal de Montréal) Sébastien Ménard

La popularité des écoles privées ne se dément pas. La proportion d’élèves qui les choisiront continuera de grimper au détriment du réseau public, en septembre prochain, ce qui préoccupe de nombreux observateurs.

Malgré toutes les campagnes menées pour «revaloriser l’école publique», 12,73% des élèves québécois se tourneront vers le [...]

LBPSB, once again, ignores a valid petition and parental concerns while gleefully watching another school community implode.

School’s earlier start time will increase daycare costs.

Karen Seidman / John Mahoney,   The Gazette

Mia Archibald and her son Jeremie Morgan outside St. John Fisher School in Pointe Claire. Archibald is behind a petition demanding the school not change the school day start time from 9 to 8 a. m.

An earlier [...]

The Educational Iceberg: Waste of taxpayers bucks on conventions and International Trips while schools, teachers and students’ needs are kept under water.

Source: The Gazette

School boards should chop junkets

Last month, the National Assembly passed Bill 100, which imposed a 10-percent cut in public-sector administration costs by June 2014, and a cut of 25 per cent in spending on travel, training, and publicity, effective immediately.

Last week, Montreal Island homeowners received their annual school-tax bills, [...]

Is the LBPSB whining about Québec’s Bill 100 because it cuts into their Wine and International travel bill or their opposition to greater autonomy for public schools?

Please find below an article published by the Hudson Gazette LBPSB denounces Quebec ‘trusteeship’

by Nathalie Blais  Hudson Gazette

Spending restraints imposed by the provincial education ministry are forcing the Lester B. Pearson School Board to further tighten its belt in fiscal 2010. The $213,990,333 budget adopted by commissioners at Monday’s meeting [...]

Provide Quality Services and They Will Follow. Provide Outdated Educational Services and Parents Will Rightly Choose With Their Feet.

Don’t blame the customers

School commissioner Judith Kelley seems to have joined those who somehow question the judgment of those thousands of anglophone parents who have chosen French schools for their children.

In making that choice, these parents, faced with having “ … to reflect on their part in ensuring a viable future for [...]

EMSB Should Meet Community Wishes re: Land Issue

Borough opposed to privatization of land

Source: The Montreal Gazette

The English Montreal School Board says it plans to sell a parcel of green space behind the former Somerled School in Notre Dame de Grâce, but will first listen to the objections of the borough of Côte des NeigesNotre Dame de Grâce. EMSB chairperson [...]

LBPSB and EMSB Council of Commissioners and Administrators Fail to Teach Parents about Petition Submittal Requirements.

MNA Kelley didn’t do enough to fight Bill 103, parents say Failed petition came too late, he says

Source: KAREN SEIDMAN, The Gazette June 9, 2010

A local parents’ group is taking MNA Geoff Kelley to task for not owning up to his part in their failed petition opposing Bill 103.

Parents who spent [...]

The “You Are Either With Us Or Against Us” Rhetoric By Marcus Tabachnic Smells of Political Opportunism.

Please find below a letter to the Gazette editor by Marcus Tabachnick. Although ACDSA commentary will follow shortly , an important question must be answered. Since when does a Chairman of a Public  School Board speak on it’s constituents behalf on political issues?  School Boards are supposed to be neutral institutions. MNAs snub [...]

Quebec Society should have no tolerance for Apartheid!

The Gazette poll results (see below) indicate that maybe, just maybe, it is time to throw out our antiquated segregationist policy in education.  It appears the time has come to provide bilingual education to all students and eliminate the divisive English and French school/school board designation all together.

Substitute French schools and English schools [...]

School Board Commissioner describes municipalities as villains and paints the LBPSB as victim in quest for new school.

ANGELA NOLET – Ward 20 – Hudson – Vaudreuil-Dorion Email: anolet@lbpsb.qc.ca

What Can I Say!  We have waited with trepidation for this day. Now we can say yes!!!!! Finally we see the light. A spanking new building to house our students is in sight. Many of us were starting to wonder if we had [...]