Eastern Shores School Board

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Eastern Shores School Board
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Address
40, rue Montsorrel C.P. 500
New Carlisle
, Quebec , G0C 1Z0
Canada
Coordinates 48°00′29″N65°19′56″W / 48.007956°N 65.332088°W / 48.007956; -65.332088
District information
TypePublic
MottoBelieve, Achieve, Succeed
GradesK-11
Established1988
Students and staff
Enrollment1 289 (September 30, 2010)
Staff160 teachers
Other information
Website www.essb.qc.ca

Eastern Shores School Board, or ESSB (French: Commission scolaire Eastern Shores) is one of nine anglophone school boards in Quebec. [1] ESSB is the largest anglophone school board in territory but the smallest anglophone school board in student population (1,289 students as of September 30, 2010) in Quebec. ESSB offers public school education in the eastern part of Quebec that includes the Magdalen Islands, Gaspe Coast, North Shore and the town of Fermont (administrative regions 01, 09 (section) and 11 [2] ).

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The school board's chief administrative officer is its Director General. The administrative body of the school board is the Council of Commissioners and is made up of the chairperson, eleven commissioners representing various wards within the school board's territory, and two non-voting parent representatives. The Council sets school board policy and gives the board its political direction. The public meetings are usually held the 15th of every second month during the day at the school board's administrative offices located at 40 rue Montsorrel, New Carlisle, Quebec. Members of the Council are elected every four years. The next election is expected to take place in late 2011.

History

In July 1971, the creation of the Regional School Board of Gaspesia amalgamated many of the small municipalities in the Gaspe Coast. In 1992, the Gaspesia-The Islands School Board was created that extended the existing territory plus the Magdalen Islands. On July 1, 1998, the creation of linguistic school boards in Quebec [3] resulted in the amalgamation of all English language schools in the eastern part of the province and became the present-day territory of ESSB which includes region 01 Bas-Saint-Laurent; region 09 Côte-Nord; and region 11 La Gaspésie-Îles-de-la-Madeleine. [4]

Eastern Shores School Board Council of Commissioners

WardElectoral DivisionCommissioner
ChairpersonWade Gifford
1Baie Comeau to Godbout / FermontMary Ellen Beaulieu
2Port Cartier / Seven IslandsMederic O'Brien
3Nouvelle / Escuminac / Cross Point / Matapedia to Rimouski / Metis BeachJulie McWhirter
4Cascapedia-St-Jules / Maria / New Richmond / Gesgapegiag / Carleton-Sur-MerMitchell Syvret-Caplin
5New Carlisle, from West of Oriental Street / Bonaventure / St-Elzéar / St-Siméon / Caplan / St-AlphonseKenneth Ward
6Part of Port-Daniel-Gasçons / Shigawake / Hopetown /St. Godefroi / Hope / Paspébiac / East of Oriental Street, New CarlisleGeorge Hayes
7Ste-Therese / Part of Port-Daniel-GasconsDouglas Hunt
8Part of the Town of GaspeDonald Bourgoin
9Murdochville / Part of the Town of GaspeRonald Mundle
10Magdalen IslandsKerry Dickson
Parent CommissionerKathy MacKenzie
Parent CommissionerRhonda Stewart
Parent CommissionerJackie Bizeau
Parent CommissionerRita Di Tanna

[5]

Eastern Shores School Board Director Generals

  1. Cyrus Journeau (1998–2003)
  2. Dr. Christian Fagueret (2003–2004)
  3. Stuart Richards (2004)
  4. Nicole Cosgrove, Interim Director General (2004–2005)
  5. Donna Bisson (2005–2007)
  6. Nicole Cosgrove, Interim Director General (2007–2009)
  7. Dave Royal (2009–2012)
  8. Howard Miller (2012–2018)
  9. Natascha Joncas (2018-2019)
  10. Hugh Wood (2019–present)

List of ESSB Schools

K-11 schools

Adult Education and Technical & Vocational Centres

Controversies

Enrollment in the Eastern Shores 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 (Bill 101) by René Lévesque's Parti Québécois government in 1977[ citation needed ]. Entry Island is the school board's smallest school with less than a dozen students. [6]

On June 16, 2010, the ESSB Council of Commissioners voted to recommend "that Bonaventure Polyvalente School (BPS) students be returned to their respective communities..." Although BPS is the largest school in the school board's territory with 143 students (as of September 30, 2010), the school board proposed to return the students to their "feeder schools" (i.e. New Richmond High School and New Carlisle High School) due to declining student population. The closure of BPS would result in students remaining in their respective communities until the end of high school (i.e. secondary 5). According to article 212 of the Education Act, there must be a two-year consultation before a is closed; however, ESSB decided to close the school at the end of a three-year period so that BPS will close in June 2014 to anglophone students. [7]

On March 20, 2013, the ESSB Council of Commissioners voted to recommend the closure of Entry Island School. [8] The school, located on Entry Island off the east coast of the Magdalen Islands, was constructed in 1963 and offers instruction from pre-kindergarten to secondary II. [9] During the 2012-2013 school year, there were two teachers and four students in the school and the projected enrolment is declining.

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References

  1. ↑ "Page introuvable – 404 | Ministère de l'Éducation et de l'Enseignement supérieur".
  2. ↑ "Page introuvable – 404 | Ministère de l'Éducation et de l'Enseignement supérieur".
  3. ↑ Politics of Quebec
  4. ↑ "Eastern Shores School Board".
  5. ↑ "Eastern Shores School Board".
  6. ↑ "Big board has tiny school". Archived from the original on 2012-11-09. Retrieved 2010-12-04.
  7. ↑ http://www.esteachers.org/esta_newsletter/xxxviii_1.pdf%5B%5D
  8. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2013-06-06.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  9. ↑ Entry Island
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