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65% sans diplôme

(Journal de Montréal) Sébastien Ménard Le Journal de Montréal 28 juillet 2009

Malgré l’inquiétude que suscite le taux de décrochage au Québec, plus de 65 % des gars, à Montréal et dans Lanaudière, n’avaient obtenu aucun diplôme l’an dernier, cinq ans après leur entrée au secondaire. «C’est en train de devenir un drame social», [...]

Enseignants faussement accusés

Jobboom par Sylvie L. Rivard

«La vérité sort de la bouche des enfants» : un proverbe à ne pas citer devant les enseignants, qui n’en peuvent plus de risquer la prison pour un oui ou pour un non.

À la Commission scolaire des Navigateurs, trois professeurs ont eu à se défendre en cour [...]

Obama to schools: Change or miss out on cash

President strong-arms educators by linking $4-billion package to reform By Michael D. Shear and Nick Anderson The Washington Post updated 3:33 a.m. ET, Fri., July 24, 2009

WASHINGTON – President Obama is leaning hard on the nation’s schools, using the promise of more than $4 billion in federal aid — and the threat of [...]

Taxes scolaires: les banlieusards écopent aussi

21 juillet 2009 | 06h21 – Agence QMI Sébastien Ménard Le Journal de Montréal

Il n’y a pas qu’à Montréal où le compte de taxe scolaire augmente cette année. Les propriétaires de la banlieue devront eux aussi verser des millions de dollars additionnels aux commissions scolaires, en 2009-2010, sans que cela n’améliore le financement [...]

Parent-Paid Aides Ordered Out of New York City Schools

By WINNIE HU Published: July 19, 2009 New York Times

For years, top Manhattan public schools have raised hundreds of thousands of dollars from parents to independently hire assistants to help teachers with reading, writing, tying shoelaces or supervising recess. But after a complaint by the city’s powerful teachers union, the Bloomberg administration has [...]

West Island schools might not benefit from budget surpluses

Karen Seidman The Gazette Thursday, July 16, 2009 Quebec imposed new accounting rules and froze almost all 2008 surpluses

While West Island school boards say new accounting practices imposed by Quebec City shouldn’t affect day-to-day services to students, there are concerns that a severe restriction on the use of surpluses could have an impact [...]

Get rid of school tax-collection agency

Source: Montreal Gazette July 17th, 2009 Letters to the editor

Re: “School-tax investment losses a blip: chairman” (Gazette, July 14).

Last April, the Comité de gestion de la taxe scolaire de l’île de Montréal was asking the education ministry for a bailout due to a financial investment it had made that went south.

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Proposition 98, which guards funding for state’s schools, is tested again

Eric Bailey Los Angeles Times July 17, 2009

In the tug of war over state’s deficit, Schwarzenegger would like to suspend it. The California Teacher’s Assn. wants reassurances.

Reporting from Sacramento — For years it has been this government town’s equivalent of a stone fortress, a bastion of public policy under the watchful eye [...]

School-tax investment losses a blip: chairman

$20M deficit; New investing more conservative, committee says By BRENDA BRANSWELL, The Gazette July 14, 2009

When you think of annoying harbingers of summer, the school tax bills that have landed in Montreal mailboxes might rank right up there with mosquitoes – even though both serve a purpose.

The committee that manages school [...]

90M$ jetés par les fenêtres?

(Journal de Montréal) Sébastien Ménard Le Journal de Montréal

Les commissions scolaires ont beau avoir reçu 90M$, depuis trois ans, afin d’embaucher des professionnels pour soutenir les élèves en difficulté, cela ne signifie pas que la somme a été dépensée au bon endroit, préviennent les directeurs d’école du Québec.

«C’est comme si on avait [...]