From: steven@spxtech.qc.ca (Steven C. Potter)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Access to French schools in CHQ etc.
Date: 17 Aug 92 16:39:37 GMT
Organization: Securiplex Technologies Inc., Montreal, Canada
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From article <CLAMEN.92Aug14024152@BYRON.SP.CS.CMU.EDU>, by clamen@CS.CMU.EDU
 Stewart Clamen asks:-

> 
> In article <1992Aug13.143311.6980@spxtech.qc.ca> steven@spxtech.qc.ca (Steven C. Potter) writes:
> 
>       Someone, I think it was Stewart, asked about schools and enrollment
>       figures for French schools in CHQ.
> 
>       I got these from "Official language minority education rights in
>       Canada: From instruction to management"; from O.C.O.L. :-
> 
>        (Table II-5, page 68)
> 
>        Public schools providing primary and secondary instruction to the
>        minority, by province and territory, 1986
> 
> 		  #     Enrlmnt.  Minority  Enrlmnt. Eligible  Eligible under
> 		public  (grades   popultn.    MMT*   enrlmnt.  s.23(1)(a)**
> 			 1-12)    6-17 yrs.  %(b/c)            %(b/e)
> 
> 		  a       b         c         d         e        f
> 
>     B.C.          36     1,525     2,602     58.6%    14,815    10.3%
>     Alberta       17     1,575     5,318     29.6%    21,093     7.5%
>     Sask.         12       838     1,762     47.6%    10,722     7.8%
>     Manitoba      34     5,211     6,681     78.0%    17,754    29.4%
>     Ontario      351    77,412    70,462    109.9%   135,612    57.1%
>     Quebec       374   111,178*** 86,946    127.9%   121,513    91.5%
>     New Bruns.   154    46,086    46,350     99.4%    57,331    80.4%
>     P.E.I.         2       497       706     70.4%     2,280    21.8%
>     Nova Scotia   20     3,665     3,791     96.4%    10,516    34.8%
>     Newf'land      2        68       267     25.5%     1,117     6.1%
>     N.W.T & Ykn.   2        36       168     21.4%       674     5.3%
> 
>      *    MMT: Minority Mother Tongue
>      **   s.23(1)(a) of Can. Charter of rights and Freedoms - this is
> 	    the "Mother Tongue" criteria for access to minority language
> 	    instruction. This is in force in every province EXCEPT Quebec.
>      ***  The figure of enrollment for Quebec would be higher if s.23(a)(a)
> 	    were applied in Quebec, as in ROC.
> 
> 
> Interesting numbers.  Thank you very much.  Could you please explain
> to us the difference between the values in columns (b) and (e)? 

   I am back at my office so I don't have the reference to hand but
   I am pretty sure that (b) is number of students actually enrolled
  (in minority language programs) and (e) is number of students who
   are legally entitled to access to minority programs (where numbers
   warrant, notwithstanding ?).


  Isn't it interesting that in taking ROC as a whole that the total
  enrollment in minority language progams is equivalent to more 
  than 99% of the number of minority language students.

  Obviously, there are areas where minority language students are too
  remote or too far apart for minority language programs.

  There are a number of areas where this is not the case and services
  could be improved.

  These figures also suggest that a number of NON minority language
  families are enrolling their children in minority language programs -
  VOLUNTARILY!!!

  This is encouraging isn't it Denis, Francois, et al.?

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