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English Montreal School Board (EMSB or in French, CSEM, Commission scolaire English-Montréal) is the largest English-language school board in the province of Quebec. The EMSB is responsible for anglophone public schools in the centre and eastern sectors of Montreal Island. Public education in the western portion of Montreal Island is administered by the Lester B. Pearson School Board. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... This article is about the Canadian province. ... Look up Anglophone in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The Island of Montreal (in French, île de Montréal), in extreme southwestern Quebec, Canada, is located at the confluence of the Saint Lawrence and Ottawa Rivers. ... The Lester B. Pearson School Board (LBPSB) is an English-language school board in the province of Quebec, the largest[4] of the nine English school boards in the province. ...

Antonio Lacroce is the current Director General of the school board and its chief administrative officer. He is assisted by Mario Tirelli, Assistant Director General, several department heads, coordinators and three regional directors. The school board has divided its territory into three regions for administrative purposes. The regional directors are the immediate superiors of elementary and high school principals.

Angela Mancini is the current chair of the school board. Silvia Lo Bianco is the vice chair. Twenty-one other commissioners representing different wards within the school board's territory and two non-voting parent representatives also sit on the Council of Commissioners. The Council sets school board policy and gives the board its political direction. It usually meets on the fourth Wednesday of every month. All members of the council are elected every four years. The next election is expected to take place in 2006.

The main offices of the board are at 6000, Fielding St in Montreal. The building was formerly occupied by the Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal (PSBGM).

History

The Government of Quebec reorganized the province's public school boards in the mid-1990s. School boards in Quebec had been organized along confessional lines, Catholic and Protestant, since before Canadian Confederation. In fact, Quebec was guaranteed a confessional public school system by the British North America Act, 1867 and its later amendments. The provincial government was therefore required to ask Ottawa to amend the Canadian Constitution if it were to reorganize school boards along linguistic lines, English and French. The amendment was passed without much debate by both the House of Commons and the Senate, notwithstanding the unresolved constitutional debate between Quebec and the rest of Canada. Protestantism is a general grouping of denominations within Christianity. ... The British North America Act of 1867 was the act that established the Dominion of Canada, by the fusion of the North American British colonies of the Province of Canada, Province of New Brunswick, Province of Nova Scotia. ...

The new board began operations on July 1st, 1998. The Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal (PSBGM) and the English sectors of the Commission des écoles catholiques de Montréal (CECM), the Commission scolaire Jérôme-Le Royer and the Commission scolaire Sainte-Croix were amalgamated to form the EMSB.

Current Issues

The political infighting among the board's commissioners has received significant coverage in Montreal's English-language media, most notably the Montreal Gazette. This fighting, for the most part, had previously pitted Catholics vs. Protestants. That division has recently become much less significant, however. The harmonization of the previous boards' administrative policies as well as the debate over school closings due to declining enrollment have been especially inflammatory. In 2005, both the Montreal Gazette and the French-language tabloid Le Journal de Montréal printed a special series of articles denouncing alleged nepotism and graft in the province's public school boards. The Gazette's investigation focussed almost exclusively on the hiring practices of the English Montreal School Board.

Enrollment in the English Montreal School Board's schools and centres continues to decline as it does in most anglophone public school boards in Quebec. This is a part of an ongoing decline which began with the enactment of the Charter of the French Language by René Lévesque's PQ government in 1977. The Charter of the French Language (also known as Bill 101 and Loi 101) is a law in the province of Quebec, Canada defining French as the only official language of Quebec. ...

The EMSB recently announced its intention to create its own foundation. According to its website, the goal of a future EMSB foundation would be to "ensure funding for unique and creative projects by raising charitable funds from individuals, businesses, community service organizations, and other friends". A Montreal businessman had already made a first donation to the school board in the autumn of 2006. The board has also organized, for the past several years, an annual fundraising golf tournament.

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List of EMSB Schools

This school board oversees 40 elementary schools, 17 secondary schools, 11 outreach schools, 10 social affairs institutions and 11 adult and vocational centres, in which over 38,000 students are enrolled.

Elementary School

• Bancroft
• Carlyle
• Cedarcrest
• Coronation
• Dalkeith
• Dante
• Dunrae Gardens
• East Hill
• Edinburgh Elementary School
• Edward Murphy
• Elizabeth Ballantyne School
• F.A.C.E. School
• Frederick Banting http://www.emsb.qc.ca/en/schools_en/pages/elementary.asp?id=15
• Gardenview
• General Vanier
• Gerald McShane
• Hampstead http://www.emsb.qc.ca/hampstead/
• Holy Cross
• Honoré Mercier
• John Caboto
• Leonardo Da Vinci
• McLearon
• Merton
• Michelangelo
• Nesbitt
• Our Lady of Pompei
• Parkdale
• Pierre de Coubertin
• Pierre Elliott Trudeau
• Roslyn
• Royal Vale
• Sinclair Laird
• St. Brendan
• St. Dorothy
• St. Gabriel
• St. John Bosco
• St. Monica
• St. Raphael
• Westmount Park
• Willingdon

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High schools

• F.A.C.E. School
• James Lyng
• John F. Kennedy
• John Grant
• John Paul I
• LaurenHill Academy (Sr. Campus)
• LaurenHill Academy Jr. Campus
• Laurier Macdonald High School
• Lester B. Pearson High School http://www.emsb.qc.ca/lesterbpearson/
• Marymount Academy http://www.emsb.qc.ca/marymount/
• MIND
• Paul VI
• Rosemount
• Royal Vale
• Royal West Academy
• St. Raphael
• Vincent Massey Collegiate http://www.emsb.qc.ca/vincentmassey
• Westmount High School http://www.emsb.qc.ca/westmount/

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Outreach Schools

• Doorways
• Mountainview
• Options I
• Options II
• Outreach
• Perspectives I
• Perspectives II
• Program Mile End
• Venture
• Vezina

External links

• EMSB website (French - English)