Montreal, September 14, 2020 – The legal battle to save Quebec’s school boards continued on Monday, as the province appealed a stay of proceedings that allows the province’s English boards to continue existing.
The province’s lawyers argued to a panel of three judges that Bill 40 does not abolish school boards but rather modifies them. Under Bill 40, school boards will be re-named service centres and the province argued that those centres will still be in charge of the same schools currently controlled by school boards. Read more