189. It shall be the duty of school boards:(1) To engage teachers duly qualified to teach in the schools under their control;
(2) After mature deliberation at a meeting called for that purpose, to cancel the engagements of persons holding pedagogical or educational positions on account of incapacity, negligence in the performance of their duties, insubordination, misconduct or immorality;
(3) To take the measures necessary to have the courses and educational services from the kindergarten level to the secondary five level inclusively, adopted or recognized for Catholic or Protestant or other public schools, as the case may be, given to all the children domiciled in the territory under their jurisdiction, if they wish to enroll in such courses, in conformity with the Charter of the French language (chapter C-11). For that purpose, the school commissioners or trustees must provide such courses and educational services in their schools or avail themselves of sections 423 to 447 or of section 450;
(4) To ensure that the courses of study given in their schools comply with the curricula and regulations prescribed or approved for Catholic, Protestant or other public schools, as the case may be;
(5) To require that only authorized books and teaching material be used in the schools under their control;
(6) To make regulations for the management of their schools;
(7) To ensure the development and operation of schools in their territory;
(8) To make and carry out such regulations respecting health in schools as are not contrary to those made by the Government under the Public Health Act (Revised Statutes of Québec, 1964, chapter 161);
(9) To ensure the administration of the human resources of the school board;
(10) To comply, as regards the register kept by their secretary-treasurer, with all instructions, whether special or general, given them by the Minister;
(11) To cause a statistical report to be prepared each year on the forms supplied for the purpose, and send it to the Minister before the date fixed by him;
(12) To keep a register in which shall be entered the minutes of their meetings, which shall be signed by the chairman and by the secretary-treasurer, in accordance with the provisions of section 182; (Form 10);
(13) To keep books of account in the manner and form indicated by the Minister;
(14) To cause to be prepared each year a financial statement on the forms supplied for the purpose, and send it to the Minister before the date fixed by him;
(15) To settle all disputes arising in relation to the schools in their municipality between the parents or children and the teachers;
(16) To dismiss from the school any pupil who is habitually insubordinate or whose conduct is immoral either in word or deed;
(17) To pay their teachers at the time provided in the contract of engagement or in the collective agreement governing them, or failing such a provision, at the end of each month of teaching;
(18) To ensure the application of the pedagogical systems and curricula, to adapt the optional content of those curricula and enrich them in accordance with their needs and priorities;
(19) To ensure that the schools provide the children under their jurisdiction and the adults domiciled in their territory with educational and cultural services in accordance with the law and the regulations and that those services are accessible to those children and adults;
(20) To ensure that the schools under their jurisdiction provide education of a high quality and to promote the carrying out of an educational project by each of their schools;
(21) To participate, in the fields in which they have jurisdiction, in the realization of community projects in their territory;
(22) To give an accounting to the population of their territory of the quality of the services offered, the administration of the schools and the use of resources;
(23) To inform the population of their territory of the educational and cultural services that they offer;
(24) To produce and send to the Minister, by the date he fixes, an annual report containing(a) an assessment of the activities of the school board for the school year;
(b) the auditor’s report on the financial operations of the school board;
(c) a report on the development of the educational and cultural activities of the schools of the school board;
(25) To consult the school committee or parents’ committee, as the case may be, with regard to the subjects on which that committee is to be consulted.