Language Learning in the English Schools of Quebec : A Biliteracy Imperative

The school board reorganization, which sooner or later is bound to come about, will force major adjustments on the delivery of English education. The forming of a true English school network through the fusion of the existing Catholic and Protestant structures will provide both an opportunity to strengthen and rationalize the English school system and a challenge to get it right. By getting it right is meant finding an educational mission to which all the constituencies of the English-speaking community and the schools which serve it can respond.