{"id":6323,"date":"2015-10-07T15:02:34","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T15:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newscoverage.org\/?p=6323"},"modified":"2015-10-09T21:45:08","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T21:45:08","slug":"maccarone-bids-for-qesba-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/index.php\/2015\/10\/07\/maccarone-bids-for-qesba-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Maccarone bids for QESBA leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Robert Frank<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Jennifer Maccarone thinks that Quebec\u2019s English school boards are a model the entire province should follow, and she wants to bring that message to Quebec City.<\/p>\n

The Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board (SWLSB) chair has tossed her hat in the ring to run the Quebec English School Boards Association.<\/p>\n

\u201cQuebec tends to look at Ontario and France when it wants to benchmark how to do better,\u201d Maccarone told\u00a0The Suburban.<\/em>\u00a0\u201cWhy not look in our own back yard? Quebec\u2019s nine English school board success rate, at 84.4 percent, is higher than Ontario\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n

SWLSB has been successful. It\u2019s churning out graduates with better French-language skills than their counterparts at the province\u2019s French schools. It\u2019s paradoxical, Maccarone observed wryly, that one way to improve the quality of French in Quebec would be to send French students to English schools.<\/p>\n

\u201cSWLSB is number one in the province, where students averaged 94.4 percent on the Fran\u00e7ais langue maternelle<\/em> exam,\u201d she enthused. \u201cThat\u2019s ahead of all the French school boards.\u201d<\/p>\n

French school boards like Commission scolaire de Montr\u00e9al (83.8 percent), Marguerite Bourgeoys (87.7 percent) and Pointe de l\u2019\u00eele (80.7 percent) fare much worse in terms of its graduates French-language skills.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not just graduating future, bilingual Quebec leaders,\u201d Maccarone smiled, \u201cwe\u2019re doing it so much better.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maccarone has repeatedly reminded the Couillard government of the pivotal role that schools play for Quebec\u2019s English-language minority.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur schools are community hubs. They\u2019re places where our minority group comes to make a contribution,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s where your ethno-linguistic identity is built. Your community is your school. It plays an important role in rural communities like Arundel or Rawdon or Lachute, where people can network, play sports and receive health care services. Your schools are more than just schools. We ought to change their names to reflect that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what is so important about potential changes to [school board] governance,\u201d Maccarone explained in an interview. \u201cVoters in each of those region need to be able to reach out to a local, elected representative who is aware of the community\u2019s needs and its realities and can echo those requirements at a larger table at all consultation processes to ensure that those people\u2019s voices are heard.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMembers of linguistic minorities often face increased barriers to education, employment and communications,\u201d she said. \u201cSometimes you feel a sense of isolation. You need to have institutions that affirm your identity to be able to elect a person who will help them further that. If school boards are the only institutions that are elected to represent your community, why on earth would you want to give up that right?\u201d<\/p>\n

The issue spills across Quebec\u2019s borders throughout the rest of Canada, she added, because how English schools here ultimately are ruled could affect control of French-minority school boards in other provinces.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur rights go further than that,\u201d Maccarone asserted. \u201cThis will set a huge precedent. Our French counterparts outside the province are looking at this very closely.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maccarone and her opponent in the election to determine who will chair QESBA, Eastern Townships School Board chair Michael Murray, will face off in a debate, Oct. 13, that QESBA will stream live over the Internet.<\/p>\n

Leaders of Montreal\u2019s two English school boards Sylvia Lo Bianco (English Montreal) and Suanne Stein Day (Lester B. Pearson) are running against one another to be elected QESBA vice-chair. The school boards crossed swords last year after Stein Day opened Pearson\u2019s international vocational school on EMSB territory in downtown Montreal.<\/p>\n

Each of the Quebec\u2019s almost 140 English school commissioners, including parent commissioners will then be able to cast their ballot electronically. QESBA intends to announce the outcome before its annual meeting wraps up, Oct. 17.<\/p>\n

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“School boards are the only institutions that are elected to represent your community,” said Jennifer Maccarone. (Photo \u00a9 Robert Frank)<\/strong><\/p>\n

[Note: This report has been revised. The original version incorrectly stated that Angela Mancini was running against Suanne Stein Day to become QESBA vice-chair]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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