MONTREAL — Quebec’s Superior Court on Monday rejected a request by a Montreal English school board to save two east-end schools from being transferred to the overcrowded French system. The English Montreal School Board tried to get a court injunction to stop the transfers, arguing the government’s decision to take away the schools violated minority language rights guaranteed in the Constitution. Quebec Education Minister Jean-Francois Roberge had argued the French system was short 3,000 spaces while some English schools in east-end Montreal operated at roughly half capacity. East-end Montreal is home to a growing number of recent immigrants who are legally barred from attending English school. Poulin noted that one of the schools being taken from the English system will serve “mostly a newly arrived immigrant population.”The students affected by the two transfers could be easily absorbed in the other English schools in the area, Poulin said.

Source: National Post July 08, 2019 18:49 UTC