ENGLISH FOLLOWS<\/p>\n
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COMMUNIQU\u00c9 DE PRESSE<\/b><\/p>\n
Le CSFP r\u00e9pond \u00e0 la recommandation d\u2019abolir les deux conseils scolaires de la province<\/b><\/p>\n
L\u2019\u00c9quipe de relance \u00e9conomique du premier ministre, pr\u00e9sid\u00e9e par Moya Greene, a recommand\u00e9 que les deux conseils scolaires de la province – le conseil scolaire anglais et le Conseil scolaire francophone provincial – soient abolis pour r\u00e9duire les co\u00fbts. Le CSFP souhaite donner suite \u00e0 cette recommandation.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span>Il n\u2019y aurait pratiquement pas d\u2019\u00e9conomies \u00e0 r\u00e9aliser en \u00e9liminant le conseil d\u2019administration du conseil scolaire, car les conseillers et conseill\u00e8res ne sont pas pay\u00e9s pour leurs services et la grande majorit\u00e9 de ses r\u00e9unions se tient d\u00e9j\u00e0 en virtuel. Le CSFP est le seul conseil scolaire de langue minoritaire au Canada dont les conseillers et conseill\u00e8res ne sont pas r\u00e9mun\u00e9r\u00e9s.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span>\u00c0 la lumi\u00e8re du rapport Greene, le CSFP a entrepris une analyse pr\u00e9liminaire de ses op\u00e9rations et de ses finances pour voir comment il pourrait r\u00e9aliser des \u00e9conomies suppl\u00e9mentaires. Nous ferons prochainement un rapport au gouvernement provincial pour pr\u00e9senter un plan de r\u00e9duction des co\u00fbts propos\u00e9. Cependant, nous craignons que toute r\u00e9duction budg\u00e9taire majeure ne se traduise par une diminution des services. Notre objectif est de r\u00e9duire les co\u00fbts tout en maintenant la qualit\u00e9 des services \u00e9ducatifs aux enfants.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span>L’abolition des conseils scolaires supprimerait un niveau essentiel de responsabilit\u00e9 \u00e0 la disposition des parents. \u00c0 l’heure actuelle, un parent qui a une plainte ou une suggestion peut la faire parvenir au CSFP, qui se consacre enti\u00e8rement \u00e0 l’enseignement en fran\u00e7ais et qui dispose des ressources pour r\u00e9gler le probl\u00e8me. Si ce niveau de responsabilit\u00e9 \u00e9tait supprim\u00e9, les plaintes ou suggestions devraient \u00eatre envoy\u00e9es au ministre de l’\u00c9ducation et finiraient tr\u00e8s probablement au bas de la liste des priorit\u00e9s, derri\u00e8re le conseil scolaire anglophone beaucoup plus grand.<\/span> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Les droits linguistiques des minorit\u00e9s en mati\u00e8re d\u2019\u00e9ducation sont prot\u00e9g\u00e9s par la Charte canadienne des droits et libert\u00e9s. En tant que tel, le CSFP est convaincu qu’il peut avancer des arguments solides pour s’opposer \u00e0 son abolition. Dans tous les cas, le CSFP utilisera tous les moyens \u00e0 sa disposition pour s’assurer que les droits des francophones \u00e0 une repr\u00e9sentation ad\u00e9quate en fran\u00e7ais <\/span>concernant l’\u00e9ducation de leurs enfants soient respect\u00e9s \u00e0 tous les niveaux par le gouvernement de Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador.<\/span><\/p>\n -30-<\/span><\/p>\n PRESS RELEASE<\/b><\/p>\n The CSFP responds to the recommendation to abolish the province\u2019s two school boards<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Premier\u2019s Economic Recovery Team, chaired by Moya Greene, has recommended that the province\u2019s two school boards \u2013 the English School District and the Conseil scolaire francophone provincial \u2013 be abolished as a cost-saving measure. The CSFP wishes to address this recommendation.<\/span><\/p>\n There would be virtually no savings to be achieved by eliminating the school board\u2019s Board of Trustees, since the trustees are not paid for their services and the large majority of its meetings are already held online. The CSFP is the only minority language school board in Canada whose trustees are not remunerated.<\/span><\/p>\n In light of the Greene report, the CSFP has undertaken a preliminary analysis of its operations and finances to look at how it could achieve additional savings. We will report shortly to the provincial government outlining a proposed cost saving plan. However, we are concerned that any major budgetary reductions could result in a decrease in services. Our goal is to reduce cost while maintaining the quality of education services to the children.<\/span><\/p>\n Abolishing the school boards would remove an essential level of accountability available to parents. Right now, a parent with a complaint or a suggestion can send it to the CSFP, which is totally dedicated to French-language instruction, and which has resources to address the issue. Should this level of accountability be removed, complaints or suggestions would need to be sent to the Minister of Education and would very likely end up at the bottom of the list of priorities, behind the much larger English School District.<\/span><\/p>\n Minority language rights in education are protected by Canada\u2019s Charter of Rights and Freedoms. As such, the CSFP is confident that it can advance strong arguments in opposition to its abolition. In any event, the CSFP will use all the means at its disposal to ensure that Francophones\u2019 rights to proper representation in French regarding the education of their children are respected at all levels by the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador.<\/span><\/p>\n -30-<\/span><\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ENGLISH FOLLOWS COMMUNIQU\u00c9 DE PRESSE Le CSFP r\u00e9pond \u00e0 la recommandation d\u2019abolir les deux conseils scolaires de la province L\u2019\u00c9quipe de relance \u00e9conomique du premier ministre, pr\u00e9sid\u00e9e par Moya Greene, a recommand\u00e9 que les deux conseils scolaires de la province – le conseil scolaire anglais et le Conseil scolaire francophone provincial – soient abolis […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":9016,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,65,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-francophonie","category-le-siege","category-nos-ecoles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csfp.nl.ca\/rdn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csfp.nl.ca\/rdn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csfp.nl.ca\/rdn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csfp.nl.ca\/rdn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csfp.nl.ca\/rdn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8512"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csfp.nl.ca\/rdn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9015,"href":"https:\/\/csfp.nl.ca\/rdn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8512\/revisions\/9015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csfp.nl.ca\/rdn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csfp.nl.ca\/rdn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csfp.nl.ca\/rdn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csfp.nl.ca\/rdn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}