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New fire bylaw targets the mischievous The Gazette BRENDA BRANSWELL GAZETTE EDUCATION REPORTER MONTREAL – Montreal Island school boards have rung up more than $217,000 in fines since a new city bylaw to attack the problem of false fire alarms went into effect last year. The fines stem from 189 of the 406 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] Joseph Lalla Op-ED Montreal Gazette Heated debates increase awareness and media coverage – a good thing T he Gazette has published a number of articles recently about the English Montreal School Board and its council of commissioners, of which I am an elected member (“Infighting still divides EMSB,” Opinion, Dec. 15). The council is [...] |
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