Education Quality Improvement Act, 1997 Johnson, Hon. David John Minister of Education and Training — Bill 160 (36th Parliament, 1st Session)

Bill 160, 36-1

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Bill 160, Education Quality Improvement Act, 1997

Johnson, Hon. David John Minister of Education and Training

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Bill 160 1997

An Act to reform the education

system, protect classroom funding,

and enhance accountability, and make

other improvements consistent with

the Government's education quality

agenda, including improved student

achievement and regulated class size

Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows:

PART I

AMENDMENTS TO THE EDUCATION ACT

(Note: This Table of Contents is to the Education Act, as it would be amended by this bill.)

1. (1) Subsection 1 (1) of the Education Act , as amended by the Statutes of Ontario, 1992,

chapter 16,

section 1, 1993,

chapter 11,

section 8, 1993,

chapter 23,

section 67, 1996,

chapter 12,

section 64, 1996,

chapter 32,

section 70 and 1997,

chapter 3,

section 2, is repealed and the following substituted:

Definitions

(1) In this Act and the regulations, except where otherwise provided in the Act or regulations,

"assessment commissioner" means the assessment commissioner appointed under the Assessment Act for the region in which the board or part of the board is situated; ("commissaire l'valuation")

"band" and "council of the band" have the same meaning as in the Indian Act (Canada); ("bande", "conseil de bande")

"board" means a district school board or a school authority; ("conseil")

"business property" means business property as defined in

section 257.5; ("bien d'entreprise")

"combined separate school zone" means a union of two or more separate school zones; ("zone unifie d'coles spares")

"continuing education instructor" means a person employed to provide instruction in a continuing education course or class established in accordance with the regulations, other than those courses or classes for which membership in the Ontario

College of Teachers is required under the regulations; ("instructeur de l'ducation permanente")

"continuing education teacher" means a teacher employed to teach a continuing education course or class established in accordance with the regulations for which membership in the Ontario College of Teachers is required by the regulations;

("enseignant de l'ducation permanente")

"credit" means recognition granted to a pupil by a principal as proof, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, that the pupil has successfully completed a quantity of work that,

(

a) has been specified by the principal in accordance with the requirements of the Minister, and

(

b) is acceptable to the Minister as partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Ontario secondary school diploma, the secondary school graduation diploma or the secondary school honour graduation diploma, as the case may be; ("crdit")

"current expenditure" means an expenditure, for operating purposes or for a permanent improvement, from funds other than funds,

(

a) advanced under a mortgage, or

(

b) arising from the sale of a debenture or an instrument prescribed under clause 247 (3) (f), from a capital loan or from a loan pending the sale of a debenture or such an instrument; ("dpenses courantes")

"current revenue" means all amounts earned by a board, together with the amounts to which it becomes entitled, other than by borrowing, that may be used to meet its expenditures; ("recettes courantes")

"debt charge" means the amount of money necessary annually,

(

a) to pay the principal due on long-term debt not payable from a sinking fund, a retirement fund or a fund prescribed under clause 247 (3) (e),

(

b) to provide a fund for the redemption of debentures or instruments prescribed under clause 247 (3) (

f) payable from a sinking fund, a retirement fund or a fund prescribed under clause 247 (3) (e), and

(

c) to pay the interest due on all debt referred to in clauses (

a) and (b); ("service de la dette")

"district municipality" means a municipality, except a city, in a territorial district; ("municipalit de district")

"district school area" means a school

section in the territorial districts that is not a school

section of a district school board or a school

section designated under

section 68; ("secteur scolaire de district")

"district school board" means,

(

c) a French-language public district school board, or

(

d) a French-language separate district school board; ("conseil scolaire de district")

"education authority" means a corporation that is incorporated by one or more bands or councils of bands for the purpose of providing for the educational needs of the members of the band or bands; ("commission indienne de l'ducation")

"elementary school" means a school in which instruction is given in some or all of the primary division, junior division and intermediate division but not in the senior division; ("cole lmentaire")

(

b) a public school authority; ("conseil public de langue anglaise")

(

a) a separate school supporter,

(

b) a French-language public district school board supporter, or

(

c) a Protestant separate school board supporter; ("contribuable des conseils publics de langue anglaise")

(

b) a Roman Catholic school authority; ("conseil catholique de langue anglaise")

and includes his or her Roman Catholic spouse; ("contribuable des conseils catholiques de langue anglaise")

"exceptional pupil" means a pupil whose behavioural, communicational, intellectual, physical or multiple exceptionalities are such that he or she is considered to need placement in a special education program by a committee, established under

subparagraph iii of paragraph 5 of subsection 11 (1), of the board,

(

a) of which the pupil is a resident pupil,

(

b) that admits or enrols the pupil other than pursuant to an agreement with another board for the provision of education, or

(

c) to which the cost of education in respect of the pupil is payable by the Minister; ("lve en difficult")

"French-language district school board" means a French-language public district school board or a French-language separate district school board; ("conseil scolaire de district de langue franaise")

"French-language district school board supporter" means a French-language public district school board supporter or a French-language separate district school board supporter; ("contribuable des conseils scolaires de district de langue

franaise")

"French-language instructional unit" means a class, group of classes or school in which the French language or Quebec sign language is the language of instruction but does not include a class, group of classes or school established under

paragraph 25 of subsection 8 (1); ("module scolaire de langue franaise")

"French-language public district school board supporter" means a French-language rights holder,

(

a) who is shown as a French-language public district school board supporter on the school support list as prepared or revised by the assessment commissioner under

section 16 of the Assessment Act , or

(

b) who is declared to be a French-language public district school board supporter as a result of a final decision rendered in proceedings commenced under the Assessment Act ,

and includes his or her spouse if the spouse is a French-language rights holder; ("contribuable des conseils scolaires de district publics de langue franaise")

"French-language rights holder" means a person who has the right under subsection 23 (1) or (2), without regard to subsection 23 (3), of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms to have his or her children receive their primary and

secondary school instruction in the French language in Ontario; ("titulaire des droits lis au franais")

"French-language separate district school board supporter" means a Roman Catholic French-language rights holder,

(

a) who is shown as a French-language separate district school board supporter on the school support list as prepared or revised by the assessment commissioner under

section 16 of the Assessment Act , or

(

b) who is declared to be a French-language separate district school board supporter as a result of a final decision rendered in proceedings commenced under the Assessment Act ,

and includes his or her Roman Catholic spouse if the spouse is a French-language rights holder; ("contribuable des conseils scolaires de district spars de langue franaise")

"French-speaking person" means a child of a person who has the right under subsection 23 (1) or (2), without regard to subsection 23 (3), of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms to have his or her children receive their primary

and secondary school instruction in the French-language in Ontario; ("francophone")

"guardian" means a person who has lawful custody of a child, other than the parent of the child; ("tuteur")

"head office" of a board means the place at which the minute book, financial statements and records, and seal of the board are ordinarily kept; ("sige")

"Indian" has the same meaning as in the Indian Act (Canada); ("Indien")

"intermediate division" means the division of the organization of a school comprising the first four years of the program of studies immediately following the junior division; ("cycle intermdiaire")

"judge" means a judge of the Ontario Court (General Division); ("juge")

"junior division" means the division of the organization of a school comprising the first three years of the program of studies immediately following the primary division; ("cycle moyen")

"Minister" means the Minister of Education and Training; ("ministre")

"Ministry" means the Ministry of Education and Training; ("ministre")

"municipality" means a city, town, village or township; ("municipalit")

"old board" has the same meaning as "board" in subsection 1 (1) of this Act, as it read immediately before the Education Quality Improvement Act, 1997 received Royal Assent, and includes The Metropolitan Toronto School Board but does

not include a school authority; ("ancien conseil")

"part-time teacher" means a teacher employed by a board on a regular basis for other than full-time duty; ("enseignant temps partiel")

"permanent improvement" includes,

(

a) a school site and an addition or improvement to a school site,

(

b) a building used for instructional purposes and any addition, alteration or improvement to a building used for instructional purposes,

(

c) any addition, alteration or improvement to an administration building,

(

d) a teacher's residence or caretaker's residence, a storage building for equipment and supplies, and any addition, alteration or improvement to such a residence or storage building,

(

e) furniture, furnishings, library books, instructional equipment and apparatus, and equipment required for maintenance of the property described in clauses (

a) to (

d) or in clause (f),

(

f) a bus or other vehicle, including watercraft, for the transportation of pupils,

(

g) the obtaining of a water supply or an electrical power supply on the school property or the conveying of a water supply or an electrical power supply to the school from outside the school property,

(

h) initial payments or contributions for past service pensions to a pension plan for officers and other employees of the board,

(

i) any property, work, undertaking or matter prescribed under subsection (6); ("amlioration permanente")

contract prescribed in the regulations for a permanent teacher; ("enseignant permanent")

"population" means the population as determined by the assessment commissioner from the last municipal enumeration as updated under the provisions of the Assessment Act\; ("population")

"primary division" means the division of the organization of a school comprising junior kindergarten, kindergarten and the first three years of the program of studies immediately following kindergarten; ("cycle primaire")

"principal" me

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