Conseil scolaire de district du Centre-Sud-Ouest
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| Conseil scolaire de district du Centre-Sud-Ouest | |
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| Board office location | North York, Ontario for educational management and in Welland, Ontario for business and financial management |
| Board identifier | B66303 |
| Number of schools | 17 daycares 27 elementary schools 8 high schools[1] |
| 2005-2006 budget (CAD $ millions) |
$84.085 ($12K per student)[1] |
| Number of students | 7032[1] |
| Chair of the Board | Ronald Marion[3] |
| Director of Education | Jean-Luc Bernard |
| Elected Trustees | Guy Belcourt Denys Bégin Lise Dubois François Gratton François Guérin Pierre Lambert Sylvie Landry René Laurin Alain Masson Micheline Wylde |
| http://www.csdcso.on.ca/ | |
The Conseil scolaire de district du Centre-Sud-Ouest, also known as CSDCSO or Ontario District School Board #58, manages the French-language schools in the central south-western region of Ontario. The area in which this school board operates covers 68,180 km² of Ontario.[1] Three new schools are scheduled to open in the next few years, in Richmond Hill, Barrie and Windsor.[2]
The CSDCSO is a member of the Association des conseillers(ères) des écoles publique de l'Ontario (ACÉPO) which are French language school boards that not only teach in the French language but function administratively in French. CSDCSO is not officially a bilingual school board. Ontario's regular public schools also maintain French immersion programs.
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[edit] History
Prior to 1998, the Francophone schools in the central south-western region of Ontario were served by 6 divisions under the regular public school board systems that also provide education in English and maintain a French-Language immersion programs that the regular public school boards still maintain today.
In 1993, the Office of the Auditor General of Ontario determined that the quality of instruction in French in Ontario was not equivalent to the instruction offered in English-language schools. The Government of Ontario has established a Royal Commission on Education (the Bégin-Caplan Commission). The Commission's final report, made public January 26, 1995, recommended that Francophones in the province be given full management of their schools.
Following this, the government on Ontario initiated a Study Group to reduce the number of school boards in Ontario (Sweeny Committee). In its report of February 16, 1996, it recommended the creation of 15 French language school boards: 10 catholic and 5 public. The province of Ontario subsequently amended its Education Act by expanding eligibility for education in French and establishing a school-administration structure for the French-language minority.
The Conservative Government of Ontario added a total of 12 new French-language school boards, including CSDCSO, under the "1997 Fewer School Boards Act".
Alice Ducharme, formerly under the Conseil des écoles françaises de la communauté urbaine de Toronto, is largely credited as being the founder of CSDCSO together with Ronald Marion, the current acclaimed Chair of the Board of Trustees and the appointed Board President. Mme Ducharme resigned from her position in 2001 as one top ten (by rate of pay) of all school board officials in Ontario, after holding the position of Director of Education from mid-1998 to mid-2001. [1][2] [3][4].
| French-language school boards prior to the merge in 1998 | Number of schools |
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| Conseil des écoles françaises de la communauté urbaine de Toronto (CEFCUT) | 5 elementary schools 2 high schools |
| Conseil scolaire de Niagara Sud | 5 elementary schools 1 high school |
| Conseil de l’éducation du comté de Simcoe | 3 elementary schools 1 high school |
| Conseil de l’éducation de la ville de London | 1 elementary school 1 high school |
| Conseil de l’éducation du comté de Lambton | 1 elementary school 1 high school |
| Conseil de la ville de Hamilton | 1 high school |
[edit] Freedom of Information Act requests
The school board has been the target of numerous Freedom of Information Act requests for access to its public records generally dealing with management of provincial funding, its hiring practices, and its record keeping of the public funding it receives from the taxpayers, a substantial amount of those coming from a single individual or group. The board has denied a number of requests, claiming they were "frivolous or vexatious" and that "the intent ... is not to obtain information to which he is entitled, but to deplete the Conseil's resources, both financial and human". [5] The requester disagreed with the claim, and appealed to the Information and Privacy Commission of Ontario and in at least five of the cases the board has been found in violation of the Freedom of Information Act and ordered to provide access to the records. [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] However, the IPC sided with the CSDCSO in at least two other cases [11] [12], and in a ruling on July 6, 2004 agreed that the requests have become "frivolous or vexatious" and imposed restrictions of the number of requests the appealant can file. [13]
CSDCSO's predecessor, Conseil des écoles françaises de la communauté urbaine de Toronto, was the target of similar requests for complying with its obligations on similar Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Legislation requests for information and records. [14]
[edit] Elementary schools
[edit] High schools
| High school | Location |
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| École secondaire Confédération | Welland, Ontario |
| École secondaire Étienne-Brûlé | North York, Ontario |
| École secondaire Franco-Jeunesse | Sarnia, Ontario |
| École secondaire Gabriel-Dumont | London, Ontario |
| École secondaire Georges-P.-Vanier | Hamilton, Ontario |
| École secondaire Jeunes sans frontières (scheduled to open in January 2007)[2] |
Mississauga, Ontario |
| École secondaire Le Caron | Penetanguishene, Ontario |
| Le Collège français | Toronto, Ontario |
| <Unnamed high school> (construction is scheduled to begin in September 2006)[2] |
Barrie, Ontario |
[edit] Some of the other French-language school boards in Ontario
There are other public French-language school boards in Ontario:
- Conseil des écoles publiques de l'Est de l'Ontario (CÉPEO)
- Conseil scolaire de district du Grand Nord de l'Ontario (CSDGNO)
- Conseil scolaire de district du Nord-Est de l'Ontario (CSDNE)
- Conseil scolaires de district 56
- Ottawa-Carleton French-language School Board
Ontario School Board Estimates for 1999-2000 = Number of boards / Number of students
- English Public boards = 31 / 1,440,710
- French Public boards = 4 / 19,633
- English Catholic boards = 29 / 596,046
- French Catholic boards = 8 / 74,184
- School Authorities = 37 (33 as of January 2001) / 2,866
[edit] References
- a b c d Rapport annuel 2004-2005. Rapports annuels. Retrieved on 2006-06-03.
- a b Projets de construction en capital. Le site du Conseil de district du Centre-Sud-Ouest. Retrieved on 2006-06-03.
- a Conseil scolaire de district du Centre Sud-Ouest. School Board Profiles. Retrieved on 2006-06-04.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- School board web site
- Ontario Ministry of Education funding details for 2005-2006
- School Board Profile
- School Board Information
CSDCSO schools
| Secondary schools | École secondaire Confédération · École secondaire Étienne-Brûlé · École secondaire Franco-Jeunesse · École secondaire Gabriel-Dumont · École secondaire Georges-P.-Vanier · École secondaire Jeunes sans frontières · École secondaire Le Caron · Le Collège français |
| Primary or elementary schools | Académie de la Moraine · Académie de la Tamise · Académie la Pinède · Carrefour des jeunes · École élémentaire Antonine Maillet · École élémentaire Champlain · École élémentaire Félix-Leclerc · École élémentaire Horizon Jeunesse · École élémentaire Jeanne-Lajoie · École élémentaire La Fontaine · École élémentaire La Source · École élémentaire LaMarsh · École élémentaire Laure-Rièse · École élémentaire L'Envolée · École élémentaire Les Rapides · École élémentaire L'Héritage · École élémentaire L'Odyssée · École élémentaire Marie-Curie · École élémentaire Nouvel Horizon · École élémentaire Patricia-Picknell · École élémentaire Pavillon de la jeunesse · École élémentaire Pierre-Elliott-Trudeau · École élémentaire Renaissance · École élémentaire St-Joseph · École L'Harmonie · École publique Gabrielle-Roy · École Publique Maison Montessori
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