EMSB scores highest graduation rate in Quebec
Posted June 19, 2024 10:04 am.
Last Updated June 19, 2024 1:05 pm.
The English Montreal School Board (EMSB) has scored the highest graduation rate in Quebec for the 2022-23 school year.
The board’s graduation rate stands at 95.9 percent, which increased from 92.7 percent in 2021-2022.
“These results are particularly favourable considering that this cohort was affected by the pandemic,” said EMSB Chair Joe Ortona in a press release. “It is reassuring to note that student achievement has remained stable in the courses required for graduation, and academically, COVID does not appear to have had a marked effect on these students.”
EMSB now sits above the provincial graduation rate at 84.2 per cent and above private schools at 93.5 per cent.
The EMSB successfully won two appeals after a judge upheld a Quebec Superior Court decision about Bill 96 on May 31.
The Quebec Court of Appeal rejected a challenge by the CAQ government to a Quebec Superior Court decision that provided EMSB with a partial stay of provisions of Bill 96 and the Charter of the French Language in April.
They’re currently waiting for their challenge against Bill 40 to be heard at the Court of Appeal, after the bill tried to turn English school boards into service centres.
And the board is also taking its Bill 21 case to the Supreme Court of Canada. The secularism law bans people in positions of authority, like teachers, from wearing religious symbols while on the job.
