TY  - GEN
T1  - The long road to reform : restructuring public education in Quebec
T2  - CEL - Canadian Publishers Collection.
A1  - Milner, Henry
LA  - English
PP  - Kingston, Ont.
PB  - McGill-Queen's University Press
YR  - 1986
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_ocn144144085
AB  - The Long Road to Reform analyses attempts to change the sectarian nature of schooling in Quebec, focusing on the fate of the radical proposals advanced by the Parti québécois in their White Paper of June 1982. The then minister of education, Camille Laurin, proposed to reform the existing system of "confessional" school boards, with its separate networks of schools for Catholics and Protestants, replacing it with school boards divided along regional lines. Under this plan, individual schools would have had considerable organizational autonomy through councils composed of parent and teacher representatives. Widespread opposition to this proposal led to its eventual modification and to the substitution of a much scaled-down version of thse reforms, Bill 3, which was declared unconstitutional by the Superior Court of Quebec in May 1985. In reviewing this effort at reform, Henry Milner describes the political and historical context in which the Quebec educational system developed and show how existing forces preventsed its modification. Milner shows that, when challenged, vested interests were still capable of erecting formidable obstacles to change and that churches were not the only institutions committed maintaining the status quo. His study not only examines why this attempt to restructure public education in Quebec failed, but also provides a fascinating picture of Quebec's turbulent and often contradictory political evolution during this period.
OP  - 170
CN  - LA418.Q7 M54 1986eb
SN  - 9780773561144
SN  - 0773561145
SN  - 0773505636
SN  - 9780773505636
SN  - 0773505644
SN  - 9780773505643
KW  - Education : Québec (Province)
KW  - School management and organization : Québec (Province)
KW  - Catholic schools : Québec (Province)
KW  - Éducation : Québec (Province)
KW  - Administration scolaire : Québec (Province)
KW  - Écoles catholiques : Québec (Province)
KW  - Écoles protestantes : Québec (Province)
KW  - EDUCATION : Comparative.
KW  - EDUCATION : History.
KW  - EDUCATION : Educational Policy & Reform : General.
KW  - Education
KW  - School management and organization
KW  - Québec
KW  - Bildungswesen
KW  - Québec : Provinz
KW  - Schule
KW  - History
ER  -