Kativik School Board

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The Kativik School Board (KSB; French: Commission scolaire Kativik, Inuktitut: ᑲᑎᕕᒃ ᐃᓕᓴᕐᓂᓕᕆᓂᖅ Kativik Ilisarniliriniq) is a school district with territory in Nunavik in northern Quebec; it has an office in the Saint-Laurent area of Montreal and one in Kuujjuaq.[1]

While most Quebec school boards are categorized by language, this district is categorized as a "special-status school board".[2]

History

It was created as part of the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement (JBNQA), and in 1975 the school district came into existence.[3]

The district headquarters were placed in Dorval so the administration would be in proximity to the Quebec government. The headquarters were later placed in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce (NDG), Montreal.[4] In 1998 Quebec Minister of Education Pauline Marois stated she would support the headquarters moving to Nunavik.[5]

The provincial education ministry requested that KSB adopt certain reforms in its mathematics and science programs by 2012; when this did not happen, in 2014 the ministry stopped KSB's ability to issue regular high school diplomas effective June 2015; instead "attestation of equivalence of secondary studies" became available. KSB did not inform the students and community of the change until 2017.[6] President of the KSB board Alicie Nalukturuk accused the ministry of ignoring requests for help on issues in the community.[7]

Schools

Iguarsivik School in Puvirnituq
Ajagutak School in Tasiujaq
Ulluriaq School in Kangiqsualujjuaq

Former schools

The board formerly operated the Ulluriaq School, previously the Satuumavik School, in Kangiqsualujjuaq.[8]

The district formerly operated the Kativik Senior Education Centre in Dorval, Quebec. In the district's early history, senior high school students had to attend classes there to get a high school diploma. During its history, most students dropped out of the program rather than completing it; the centre was a long distance from Nunavik.[4]

References

  1. ^ Home page. Kativik School Board. Retrieved on September 22, 2017. "Montreal Office 9800, boul. Cavendish Suite 400 Saint-Laurent (Québec) H4M 2V9 [...] Kuujjuaq Office P.O. Box 150 Kuujjuaq, QC J0M 1C0"
  2. ^ "The Education Reform." Quebec Ministry of Education. Saturday November 29, 1997. Retrieved on September 22, 2017. French version
  3. ^ "School board." Kativik School Board. Retrieved on September 22, 2017. French version, Inuktit version
  4. ^ a b MacLeod, Roderick and Mary Anne Poutanen. A Meeting of the People: School Boards and Protestant Communities in Quebec, 1801-1998. McGill-Queen's Press, 2004. ISBN 0773527427, 9780773527423. p. 393.
  5. ^ George, Jane (1998-12-10). "We'll pay KSB's $35 million moving bill, Quebec official says". Nunatsiaq News. Archived from the original on 2017-09-23. Retrieved 2017-09-24.
  6. ^ Strong, Walter (2017-05-10). "Nunavik's school board stopped issuing high school diplomas in 2015". CBC News. Retrieved 2017-09-24.
  7. ^ Strong, Walter (2017-05-11). "Nunavik school board's prez says province partly to blame for diploma debacle". CBC News. Retrieved 2017-09-24.
  8. ^ "Ulluriaq Home Page." Kativik School Board. May 28, 2001. Retrieved on September 23, 2017.