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La CECM et la démocratisation du financement scolaire à Montréal (1963-1973)
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La CECM et la démocratisation du financement scolaire à Montréal (1963-1973)
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In the early 1960s, the leaders of the Commission des écoles catholiques de Montréal (CECM) condemned the weak development of their secondary school programs, which were falling significantly behind those of the Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal (PSBGM). The author argues that an unfair method of allocating school taxes, instituted by the provincial government, was seen as one of the main reasons behind this lag, which represented a barrier to Francophone education. At that time, school taxes were collected according to real estate assessments and were divided among the public schools according to the religious affiliation of the property owners. Because of the higher level of wealth among Protestants, the PSBGM benefited from this funding model. The author reconstructs the different stages in the CECM's lobbying campaign to abolish this model of school funding. He attempts to illustrate the direct connection between the democratization of public secondary education and the equitable redistribution of financial resources among Montreal's school boards.
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Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française
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Vol. 62
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no. 1
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5-34
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Été 2008
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fr
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Croteau, Jean-Philippe. “La CECM et la démocratisation du financement scolaire à Montréal (1963-1973).” Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française Vol. 62, no. 1 (t 2008): 5–34. http://www.erudit.org/revue/haf/2008/v62/n1/029663ar.pdf.
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