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Resources
Tools & Activities
Advocacy Documents
This is a new, exciting feature that CPF is continuously working on in order to provide you with the absolute best and most current resources possible in your quest for quality information. While just the basic skeletal structure now, one day this resource page will take a life all its own and will allow for a much more intutive and functional user experience. Click here for Special Needs of Allophones.
TRANSPORTATION
Quotes
Quotes on the importance of transportation to French Immersion Programs
Sample Briefs/Submissions
CPF Chapter submission to school board on transportation review
To Trillium District School Board, Ontario – Bus Them and They Will Come
Busing and Transportation Assistance Issue
Advocacy Letters Regarding Transportation
Letter to school council chairs York Region District School Board, Ontario
PowerPoint presentation to School Councils
Sample letter to a Minister of Education from a Chapter President
Sample letter from a Branch President to the minister on the same issue
Sharing ideas and experiences- letter to parents in a BC chapter re experiences with transportation in Ontario
Sample Letter to YRDSB Trustees
Research & Reports
CPF Ontario Transportation Study 2001
CPF Ontario Transportation Study 2008
CPF Ontario Report and Recommendations to the Ontario Minister of Education
Ministries of Education
Provincial Ministries that have policies on equitable access (pages 10-12)
Education Acts
Check your provincial legislation for transportation policies. This one is Ontario’s policy from its Education Act. Those from other provinces/territories will be added eventually. The following is taken from the section on transportation. Please note use of the word “may” as opposed to “shall.”
Transportation of pupils
190. (1) A board may provide for,
(a) a pupil who is enrolled in a school that the board operates; transportation to and from the school that the pupil attends. R.S.O. 1990, c. E.2, s. 190 (1); 1997, c. 31, s. 96 (1).
Student Transportation Grant
Technical Paper – Funding Formulas
Description:
“This grant provides school boards with funding in order to transport students to and from home and school, including transporting students with special needs. The Student Transportation Grant is made up of five allocations, with the total Student Transporation Grand projected to be $864.6 million in 2010-11:
- Cost Update Adjustment Allocation;
- Enrolment Adjustment Allocation;
- Routing Efficiency Allocation;
- Fuel Escalator and De-escalator Allocation; and
- Transportation to Provincial Schools Allocation.
Cost Update Adjustment Allocation:
- This allocation recognizes a cost increase of 2 percent for providing transportation
services; - Boards with a transportation deficit in the 2009–10 school year will receive the cost
update adjustment; - Boards with a transportation surplus in the 2009–10 school year, and a cost update
adjustment that is more than their surplus, will receive the difference between their
surplus and the cost update adjustment; and - Boards with a transportation surplus in the 2009–10 school year, and a cost update
adjustment that is less than their surplus will not receive a cost update adjustment.
Ministry Memos and Other Documentation
Draft funding 2010-2011
Funding (Ministry Memo) (Pages 7 and 8 deal with transportation)
'B' Memos
Transportation (Ministry Memo)
Ministries of Education
Provincial Ministries that have policies on equitable access (review pages 10-12)
1. Gifted And Special Needs
- Strategy in Special Education for French Immersion and Extended French Students CPF Ontario
- Is Immersion Right for Students with Academic Challenges? - Fred Genesee, PhD, in The State of French Second-Language Education in Canada 2008, Canadian Parents for French, pages 12-13.
- Diversity in French Immersion: Information for education professionals, consultants and specialists- Alberta Education.
- Inclusion of Students with Diverse Needs in French Immersion Schools - What School Administrators Need to Know - Alberta Education.
- Diversity in French Immersion Classrooms: A Quick Inclusion Guide for Teachers - Alberta Education.
- Inclusive Practice in French Immersion - Martine Pellerin, PhD, 2009.
2. Allophone Students
- Opening the Doors to Official Language Learning for Allophones - Callie Mady, PhD
- State of French-Second-Language Education in Canada 2010 - see pages 5 - 9 for information on Allophones and FSL programs
UNIVERSITY of OTTAWA FSL STUDENTS: PORTAIL FRANCOPHILE