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 [...]
Moving away from competency-based evaluations
THE GAZETTE Karen Seidman
The Education Department’s proposed changes to Quebec’s report cards got the blessing of the province’s largest school board yesterday, but it came amid continued grumbling and concern among other educators in the province who are reeling from the plan to steer away from competency-based evaluation.
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Sébastien Ménard Le Journal de Montréal 24/08/2009 05h13
«Oui, ça aurait pu se faire différemment et probablement à moindre coût.»
Le président de l’Association montréalaise des directions d’établissements scolaires, Gaétan Nault, reconnaît que l’activité organisée par la Commission scolaire de Montréal (CSDM) aurait pu avoir lieu sans nécessiter des dépenses de 50 000 [...]
(Agence QMI) Jean Nicolas Aubé
La ministre de l’Éducation, Michelle Courchesne Agence QMI – Eric Neil Bolte – archives La ministre de l’Éducation, Michèle Courchesne, se serait «attendue à plus de sobriété et à plus de modération» de la part de la Commission scolaire de Montréal au moment d’organiser une «rentrée administrative» au coût [...]
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