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French counterpart has discount rate because its tax base is larger THE GAZETTE Karen Seidman It costs more to be an anglophone in Laval this summer. When school tax bills went out recently, homeowners affiliated with the English-language Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board found themselves paying a higher tax rate. Laurier board chairperson Steve [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] IF THE CHAREST (QUEBEC LIBERAL PARTY LEADER) INQUEST INTO APPOINTMENT OF JUDGES IS MORE OF THE SAME AS THE NANCI INQUEST INTO THE EMSB -YOUR TAX DOLLARS WILL ONCE MORE BE WASTED ON POLITICAL BS. THE QUEBEC LIBERALS HAVE BEEN ANYTHING BUT TRANSPARENT SINCE THEIR ELECTION. FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DO NOT KNOW [...] Unless the Montreal Gazette got it all wrong in their article “School boards look to Quebec to cover H1N1-related costs” by Brenda Branswell, The Gazette, October 31, 2009, some investigation is called for. The MELS would be wise to send out its top snoop dog to sniff through the H1N1 related expenditures publicly claimed [...] (Agence QMI) Elizabeth Thompson OTTAWA – Est-ce qu’une loi québécoise qui empêche certains enfants qui fréquentent les écoles anglaises privées au Québec de s’inscrire dans des écoles publiques anglophones, viole la Constitution du Canada?C’est l’une des questions épineuses à laquelle la Cour suprême du Canada répondra jeudi, lorsqu’elle rendra sa décision dans deux [...] |
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