On en parle pas juste entre francos

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End public funding of religious schools: education activists

PROVINCIAL ELECTION OFFER; Groups to support candidates who champion their cause


April Lindgren,
CanWest News Service

Published: Thursday, June 21, 2007
TORONTO
- Groups calling for an end to public funding for Ontario's Catholic
school boards say they will join the political fray by supporting
candidates in the Oct. 10 provincial election who champion their cause."We
are not putting up candidates but we are going to point out to people
that the only political party in Ontario that supports a one-school
system policy is the Green Party," Bryan Kerman, a spokesman for the
One School System Network, said yesterday."The time has come to end public funding of religious schools in Ontario," the retired Ancaster environmental scientist said.
"The
question comes down to how we want our children to grow up. Do we want
Ontario to be a group of separated communities like ghettos or do we
want our children to grow up to understand each other, to appreciate
each other?"Mr. Kerman said the newly created One School System
Network, which is also concerned about the cost of running parallel
Catholic and public systems, represents 10 different groups including
the Muslim Canadian Congress, the Hindu Conference of Canada and a
variety of trustee groups.Network members will hold a news conference tomorrow at Queen's Park to build public awareness of their cause.The
one-school system initiatives come at a time when Conservative leader
John Tory plans to campaign on a platform that calls for giving
non-Catholic, faith-based schools the opportunity to "join our publicly
funded education system the same way Catholic schools have already
done."Mr. Kerman denounced the policy as "abysmal," saying it
"obviously has more to do with trying to gain votes than to solve a
problem for the majority of Ontario citizens."Tory spokesman
Brendan Howe said the party policy does not envision creating more
school boards for different religious minorities but instead would
allow faith-based schools to become part of existing public boards
provided "they adhere to the public system's curriculum and
accountability standards."Education Minister Kathleen Wynne also
attacked the Conservative proposal, calling it a "divisive" initiative
that would create "a segregated system that would be funded by public
dollars."But Ms. Wynne also rejected Mr. Kerman's call for the
elimination of the province's 37 Catholic school boards, which educate
about 675,000 French and English speaking students at a cost of about
$6-billion annually.Ontario also spends $12.1-billion on 35 public school boards attended by 1.442 million students."We
are going to continue to support the publicly funded system as we
inherited it and as it is rooted in our heritage and constitution," she
said in an interview."We cannot be distracted by a governance
discussion right now that would take us away from focusing on student
achievement and getting the system as it exists back in shape."Questions
about the structure of Ontario's school system are becoming more
pointed as many school boards struggle with declining enrolments that
make it difficult to offer a full complement of courses.Earlier
this year, 11 public school boards including the Ottawa-Carleton
District School Board, passed motions calling upon the Public School
Boards Association of Ontario to lobby the government for a new
two-board system -- one English speaking and one French speaking.When
a similar motion was put to a vote at the association's annual general
meeting last month, it was defeated by a two-to-one margin.

© National Post 2007

Merde. Il faut un Ministère de l'éducation francophone et un Ministère de l'éducation anglophone. Éventuellement!!!!

De plus : les écoles catholiques au Canada sont protégés par la constitution (L'Acte d'Améique du Nord britannique). De même pour les écoles protestants au Québec. Ce serait contre la constitution d'abolir les conseils catholique, et ce serait probablement très difficile d'arrêter le financement.

Même si ça aiderait peut-être à la fusion des deux systèmes

SM..... - Le QC et TN on abolie leurs conseils catho en faveur de Anglo et Franco...

Guêpe a écrit:

SM..... - Le QC et TN on abolie leurs conseils catho en faveur de Anglo et Franco...

Les conseils catholiques ne sont pas protégés au Québec. Ce sont plutôt les conseils protestants.

Je ne peux pas commenter au sujet de Terre-Neuve.

Les Ontariens sont des ignorants. C'est ce que j'ai pu décerner de l'article.

SM a écrit:

Merde. Il faut un Ministère de l'éducation francophone et un Ministère de l'éducation anglophone. Éventuellement!!!!

De plus : les écoles catholiques au Canada sont protégés par la constitution (L'Acte d'Améique du Nord britannique). De même pour les écoles protestants au Québec. Ce serait contre la constitution d'abolir les conseils catholique, et ce serait probablement très difficile d'arrêter le financement.

Même si ça aiderait peut-être à la fusion des deux systèmes

Est-ce que c'est contre la constitution d'abolir les conseils? ou juste d'enlever les écoles?

En Alberta, il existe juste des conseils francophones (4 je crois) qui regroupent des écoles publiques francophones et catholiques francophones. Consolider un conseil sauve de l'argent, sans nécessairement enlever le droit à l'éducation religieuse dans les écoles.

Moi je suis juste contente qu'ils spécifient qu'il va quand même avoir deux conseils séparés pour franco et anglo.

Et pour le poste de ministre de l'éducation, tant que Dominic Giroux est sous-ministre adjoint de l'éducation francophone, je crois que nous sommes en bonnes mains.

J'aime mieux le système au Nouveau-Brunswick dans lequel il existe deux ministères je crois.