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| The CSFY is filing a court action regarding full school governance | | | This Wednesday, February 18, the Yukon French School Board No. 23 (CSFY) filed an action against the Yukon Department of Education (YDE) at the Whitehorse Court regarding the achievement of full school governance by the CSFY. Patrick Rouble, Yukon Minister of Education, was informed of this action. This court action is the latest step in a long process of dealings. Several years of negotiations between the CSFY and the Yukon Department of Education have not lead to significant developments regarding full school governance by the CSFY. Therefore, the CSFY has chosen to appeal to the court to obtain a decision and move the case forward. The main request of the CSFY is to obtain full school governance. This involves the management of programs, buildings, staff and finances, as well as its education system and schools. The CSFY also requests an adequate level of funding to meet its mandate for the entire Yukon, not only for Whitehorse. The CSFY wants to have the means to offer a French education in the Yukon of equal quality to the education offered to Anglophones. The Émilie-Tremblay School and the CSFY exist because of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which recognizes the right of linguistic minority communities to receive an education in their own language. Section 23 of the Charter also recognizes that these communities have the right to manage their education system. These rights go hand in hand and one cannot exist without the other. The CSFY relies on the support of its staff, commissioners, parents of students, the community at large and Yukon Francophone community partners to assist it in obtaining recognition of its rights to offer a quality education to Yukon Francophones, and to develop Francophone education in the Yukon. About the CSFY:
The only school board in the Yukon, the CSFY was officially created in 1995, after a multi-year struggle for recognition of the importance of school governance for Yukon Francophones. Back then, the Émilie-Tremblay School was starting to offer grade 12, and the following year, it awarded its first high school diploma. In 2009, more than 160 students attend the school, from pre-kindergarten to grade 12. | | |
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