E-8.1 - Act respecting public elementary and secondary education

Section 447 Disposition versions

2999-12-31

447. The Government, by regulation, shall establish an official school policy as the basis of organization of educational services.

The regulations on the official school policy shall concern

(1)  admission of pupils;

(2)  the school calendar;

(3)  the segments of elementary and secondary school;

(4)  the time prescribed for educational services;

(5)  the required and elective subjects;

(6)  the number of credits per subject;

(7)  the promotion of pupils from one grade to another and from elementary school to secondary school;

(8)  the evaluation of learning achievement and the certification of studies;

(9)  the information or documents to be transmitted to a pupil or his parents.

The regulations on the official school policy may

(1)  allow the admission of pupils or categories of pupils under five years of age and indicate, on conditions prescribed therein, the educational services that are provided to them;

(2)  allow a school board, on conditions prescribed therein, to exempt a pupil from a subject other than Catholic or Protestant moral and religious values instruction or moral values instruction;

(3)  allow the Minister to authorize a school board, on request, to assign a greater number of credits to a subject in which it adopts a local program of studies than that prescribed in the official school policy;

(4)  permit the Minister to effect a gradual implementation of the prescriptions concerning the ratio of required subjects to elective subjects and concerning the rules of certification of studies;

(5)  prescribe that certain prescriptions of the policy not apply to adult education or make special prescriptions applicable to adults alone.

The regulations on the official school policy may also allow the Minister to establish the modalities of application of the rules of certification of studies and to exempt a category of students he indicates from the application of some of those rules.

1984, c. 39, s. 447; 1985, c. 8, s. 38.