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\nBy Robert Frank
\nwww.thesuburban.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Threatened by Coalition pour l’avenir du Qu\u00e9bec’s<\/i> education proposals, Quebec school board officials have voiced their opposition. <\/p>\n

Lester B. Pearson School Board chair Susane Stein-Day has voiced criticism of CAQ education policy and, last week, John Rennie High School sent students home from registration with a one-page flyer pleading for parents to support school boards. <\/p>\n

\u201cOur English school boards play a very constructive role,\u201d Liberal cabinet minister Geoffrey Kelley<\/a> told The Suburban<\/i> in an interview. \u201cSchool success rates in the English boards are higher than the provincial average.\u201d<\/div>\n

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\n \u201cEven someone who is not necessarily an ally of the English school boards, Jacques Parizeau, said ‘look, we should take a closer look at what the English school boards are doing right.’ I think that eliminating these incubators for best practices would be a mistake.\u201d <\/p>\n

Paola Hawa<\/a>, the CAQ candidate running against Kelley, said that her party’s education policy is being misrepresented. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe only thing that will change is the power structure,\u201d she told The Suburban<\/i> in an interview. \u201cParents will get a direct say in what happens at their school.\u201d<\/div>\n

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\n \u201cInstead of top-down approach, we’re advocating a bottom-up approach to education,\u201d she explained. \u201cParents at each school will conduct elections for their own school and they will decide where their money goes.\u201d <\/p>\n

She underscored that this change will help public schools, which have been losing students to private schools that are more responsive to parents. <\/p>\n

Kelley wants municipal elections to be held together school board elections on Nov. 1, 2013.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\n \u201cThe idea was to put [school board elections] in phase with municipal elections,\u201d explained Kelley. \u201cSomething that other provinces do successfully is [to conduct] municipal and school board elections on the same day.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI know there’s resistance in both the school boards and in the municipal realm,\u201d he acknowledged, \u201cbut we think that it’s an experiment that’s worth trying to see whether that could increase the participation rate in the school board elections.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cWe’ll have to see after the election, but that’s where we’re headed.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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