L’École des Sentiers-alpins in Nelson was established in 2006 with 8 students. Nine years later, 86 students from kindergarten to grade 8 are enrolled at École des Sentiers-Alpins.
The beginning of the 2010 school year saw the opening of our new facilities in the former A.I. Collinson School, located nine kilometres away on the north shore of Nelson, that is, on the other side of the famous orange bridge.
Obtain a new kindergarten to grade 12 school on a site large enough to allow for future enrolment growth.
Francophone parents in Nelson have the right to a homogeneous school with facilities that are substantively equivalent to those of the majority at the elementary level, which is already the case in Nelson, according to Justice Russell.
Francophone parents in Nelson have the right to have their children educated in French at the secondary level and to access the basic facilities needed to offer secondary programming, again according to the judge.
The implementation of section 23 of the Charter in Nelson will be supported by the order requiring the provincial government to establish a separate long-term funding envelope for the CSF’s capital projects, by the order requiring the provincial government to help the CSF acquire sites to meet the CSF’s needs, and by the order requiring the provincial government to fund the CSF’s leases where a program is offered in leased space. The implementation of section 23 of the Charter in Nelson may also be aided by the order for damages regarding the decade-long freeze of funding for the CSF’s transportation budget.
The CSF and the Fédération des parents francophones will ask, as regards Nelson, that the Court of Appeal remedy the errors of law made by Justice Russell, pronounce the correct interpretation of the law, and set aside the conclusions of the trial judge.
No new developments.