{"id":6132,"date":"2015-08-05T19:47:56","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T19:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newscoverage.org\/?p=6132"},"modified":"2015-08-05T19:47:56","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T19:47:56","slug":"schools-get-reprieve-from-closures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/index.php\/2015\/08\/05\/schools-get-reprieve-from-closures\/","title":{"rendered":"Schools get reprieve from closures"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"storyholder\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"www.thesuburban.com\">By Robert Frank<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Quebec\u2019s Education Ministry has backed off its push to force school boards to close their underused schools before children return to class next month.<br \/>\nThe provincial government had threatened not to fund capital improvements to schools operating at less than 50 per cent capacity. Without that cushion, a roof leak or a heating system failure could have provoked a sudden closure in the midst of the school year.<br \/>\n\u201cThat was reversed in the final budget rules,\u201d Lester B. Pearson School Board (LBPSB) chair Suanne Stein Day told\u00a0The Suburban.<br \/>\n<strong>Not over yet<\/strong><br \/>\nThe reprieve merely postpones the inevitable, though.<br \/>\nIn 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.<br \/>\nThat\u2019s down from 60 per cent in 2014, when she cited Lindsay Place as an example of one of LBPSB\u2019s sparsely populated high schools. The school board has not identified the other three high schools that are operating well-under capacity.<br \/>\nStein Day confirmed that the autumn closure consultations it had originally planned remain pending.<br \/>\n\u201cWe never really got off track with that, as we knew it would be virtually impossible to implement the government plans,\u201d she confirmed in an electronic mail message.<br \/>\n\u201cWe were hugely disappointed that our proven processes related to major school change were ignored in yet another \u2018one size fits all\u2019 proposed measure,\u201d Stein Day said.\u00a0\u201cI guess our words were heard, though.\u201d<br \/>\nWhen she first mooted the cutbacks in March, she suggested that some school facilities could be repurposed to provide community services, adult and vocational education.<br \/>\nLBPSB enrolment is sagging under the double-whammy of declining demographics and Quebec\u2019s restrictive language laws. That the fall in enrolment is far from uniform, though. In the off-island communities west of Montreal, LBPSB schools are straining to accommodate the burgeoning population there.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Lakeside-Academy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6133\" src=\"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Lakeside-Academy-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Lakeside Academy\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Lakeside-Academy-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Lakeside-Academy-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Lakeside-Academy-720x540.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Lakeside Academy in Lachine operated at 38 per cent capacity during the 2014-2015 school year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Robert Frank Quebec\u2019s Education Ministry has backed off its push to force school boards to close their underused schools before children return to class next month. 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