(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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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