{"id":663,"date":"2014-10-01T18:11:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T18:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rf.podcastfixit.com\/index.php\/2014\/10\/01\/three-way-race-to-lead-pearson-schoo\/"},"modified":"2015-06-01T19:40:54","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T19:40:54","slug":"three-way-race-to-lead-pearson-schoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/index.php\/2014\/10\/01\/three-way-race-to-lead-pearson-schoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Three-way race to lead Pearson school board"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Eligible voters in Montreal\u2019s West End, West Island and off-island will get to choose from three candidates who are vying for the top job at the Lester B. Pearson School Board (LBPSB) during the upcoming election, Nov. 2. <\/p>\n

This will be the first time that the school board chair will be selected by direct election. Until now, school commissioners voted among themselves to pick who would get to fill the powerful post, which oversees more than $275 million in annual expenditure. <\/p>\n

After nominations closed on Sunday, Sept. 28 at 5 p.m., LBPSB returning officer Remi Poliquin declared that Chris Eustace, Angela Nolet and Suanne Stein Day are the only three candidates running to chair the board for the next four years. <\/p>\n

\u201cI helped expose the misuse of $900,000 for a pre-kindergarten program,\u201d said Eustace, an education advocate who taught in LBPSB schools, has been a steadfast presence at LBPSB council during the past 16 years.<\/p>\n

He advocates redirecting more money back to the classroom by trimming administrative overhead, axing LBPSB\u2019s $200,000 annual contribution to the Quebec English School Boards Association. He also wants more transparency at LBPSB, where elected commissioners must sign a \u201cfour-year gag order\u201d that prevents them from talking about LBPSB matters after their mandate ends. <\/p>\n

Nolet has served as an elected school commissioner for most of the past quarter-century and is LBPSB\u2019s outgoing vice-chair. She told The Suburban <\/i>that she wants to introduce a more collaborative approach to school board democracy. As an Anglophone who was educated in French schools, she believes that her fluency in both official gives her an edge over her opponents in dealing with Quebec City.<\/p>\n

She favours bolstering French-language teaching to make LBPSB students more competitive and accentuates increasing transparency and public involvement at LBPSB. She also advocates private sector partnerships and reassessing LBPSB\u2019s current use of its school building inventory.<\/p>\n

Incumbent Stein Day took over the reins at LBPSB after her predecessor, Marcus Tabachnick, quit to join the private sector. After joining her school\u2019s governing board, she moved up the heirarch of LBPSB\u2019s parents committees was elected to head the Pearson Educational Foundation and served on the board of directors of the Quebec Home and School Associations. <\/p>\n

She said her \u201cpassion for the excellence that is our classrooms\u201d motivated her to run for re-election and that her work \u201cas a self-employed consultant\u201d permits her to attend \u201cthousands of school events\u201d during the week. <\/p>\n

\u201cI am proud to have spent time in every [LBPSB] school,\u201d she wrote. <\/p>\n

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\nSchool board electoral reform has reduced the number of LBPSB school districts from 21 to 12. Several outgoing commissioners are running against one another to try to remain on council.<\/b><\/div>\n
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\nAngela Nolet wants to bring more transparency and public involvement to Lester B. Pearson School Board.<\/b><\/div>\n
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