{"id":5954,"date":"2015-06-10T16:31:28","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T16:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newscoverage.org\/?p=5954"},"modified":"2015-06-10T16:31:28","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T16:31:28","slug":"update-quebec-wants-schools-closed-by-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/index.php\/2015\/06\/10\/update-quebec-wants-schools-closed-by-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Quebec wants schools closed by Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><b>By Robert Frank<\/b><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesuburban.com\">www.thesuburban.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quebec\u2019s Education Ministry wants to force the province\u2019s school boards to close their sparsely populated schools by in September, Lester B. Pearson School Board (LBPSB) chair Suanne Stein Day told\u00a0<i>The Suburban.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government said that it won\u2019t fund those schools\u2019 capital improvements because they\u2019re operating at less than 50 per cent capacity,\u201d she said in an interview. \u201cThis is an attack on the [province\u2019s] English school boards.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The province wants to force those schools to close by September, if they\u2019re within 20 km of another school, Stein Day explained. That is a predicament that is largely unique to Quebec\u2019s English schools, where the province\u2019s language laws restrict enrolment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not generally a problem that the province\u2019s French school boards face,\u201d she observed.<\/p>\n<p>In March, LBPSB embarked on a round of public consultation about potential school mergers that was supposed to last until Oct. 31. Stein Day said at the time that four of the board\u2019s high schools were hovering at or below the Education Ministry\u2019s 50 per cent capacity threshold.<\/p>\n<p>Although LBPSB enrolment is steadily sagging, in the off-island communities west of Montreal its schools are straining to accommodate the burgeoning population there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve gone back to the government and asked to postpone school closures to next year,\u201d Stein Day reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><b><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<p class=\"separator\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-Pikn8zGaC5k\/VXhlgh5R7MI\/AAAAAAAACsI\/L7J06a3fc6E\/s1600\/150608%2BLuc%2BHorne%2B-%2BLBPSB%2Bcouncil%2B1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-Pikn8zGaC5k\/VXhlgh5R7MI\/AAAAAAAACsI\/L7J06a3fc6E\/s320\/150608%2BLuc%2BHorne%2B-%2BLBPSB%2Bcouncil%2B1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u201c<\/span><\/b><b><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">LBPSB teacher\u2019s union president John Donnelly asked &#8216;are there going to be any changes in staffing?&#8217;\u201d education activist Luc Horne told Suanne Stein Day. \u201cYou said \u2018No&#8217;. The following day, [dozens of] people were sent their [dismissal] slips.\u201d<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><i>(Photo \u00a9 Robert Frank)<\/i><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Robert Frank www.thesuburban.com Quebec\u2019s Education Ministry wants to force the province\u2019s school boards to close their sparsely populated schools by in September, Lester B. Pearson School Board (LBPSB) chair Suanne Stein Day told\u00a0The Suburban. \u201cThe government said that it won\u2019t fund those schools\u2019 capital improvements because they\u2019re operating at less than 50 per cent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>UPDATE: Quebec wants schools closed by Fall - Newscoverage<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/index.php\/2015\/06\/10\/update-quebec-wants-schools-closed-by-fall\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UPDATE: Quebec wants schools closed by Fall - Newscoverage\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Robert Frank www.thesuburban.com Quebec\u2019s Education Ministry wants to force the province\u2019s school boards to close their sparsely populated schools by in September, Lester B. 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