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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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] Source: Hudson Gazette Jim Duff It’s nowhere near the size of the Plains of Abraham but from the shots fired by Guy Pilon and Marcus Tabachnick, you’d think they were re-enacting the Battle of Quebec. The disputed territory is 20,150 square metres, roughly the size of four football fields. It’s located at the heart [...] Mr. Tabachnick, On behalf of the Municipal Council ofVaudreuil-Dorion, I would like to express our disappointment towards your attitude in the whole issue of the construction of a new elementary school. We consider this problematic situation as stemming from a lack of planning on your part. Recently, you contacted all the English media tosay [...] 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 [...] |
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