English Montreal School Board
| English Montreal School Board Commission scolaire English-Montréal |
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6000 Fielding Avenue, Montreal, Quebec Montreal Canada |
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| Chair of the board | Angela Mancini |
| Director of education | Ann Marie Matheson |
| Schools | 40 elementary schools 17 secondary schools 11 outreach schools 10 social affairs institutions 11 adult and vocational centres |
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| Students | 36,000 |
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| Elected commissioners | 10 |
| Website | www |
English Montreal School Board (EMSB or in French, Commission scolaire English-Montréal - CSEM) is one of the 5 school boards in the island of Montreal. The EMSB is the largest anglophone school board of 9 in Quebec.
The EMSB is responsible for English-speaking public schools in the city of Montreal, which makes up the centre and eastern sectors of Montreal Island (The city of Montreal accounts for only 2/3 of the island of Montreal, the other 1/3 of the island of Montreal is mostly independent cities). Anglophone public education in the western portion of Montreal Island is administered by the Lester B. Pearson School Board.
Ann Marie Matheson is the current Director General of the school board and its chief administrative officer. She is assisted by Paola Miniaci and Angelo Marino, Deputy Directors General, several department heads, coordinators and two regional directors. The school board has divided its territory into two regions for administrative purposes. The regional directors are the immediate superiors of elementary and high school principals.
Angela Mancini is the current chair of the school board. She and ten commissioners representing different wards within the school board's territory are elected in accordance with the Act respecting school elections for a four-year term. Four commissioners representing the parents' committee also sit on the Council of Commissioners and are elected in accordance with the Education Act for a two-year term. The Council sets school board policy and gives the board its political direction. It usually meets on the fourth Wednesday of every month.
The main offices of the board are at 6000, Fielding Avenue in the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce district of the borough of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce. The building was formerly occupied by the Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal (PSBGM).
The Government of Quebec reorganized the province's public school boards in the mid-1990s. School boards in Quebec had been organized along confessional lines, Catholic and Protestant, since before Canadian Confederation. In fact, Quebec was guaranteed a confessional public school system by the British North America Act, 1867, now known as the Constitution Act, 1867. The provincial government was therefore required to ask the federal government to amend the Canadian Constitution if it were to reorganize school boards along linguistic lines, English and French. The amendment was passed without much debate by both the House of Commons and the Senate, notwithstanding the unresolved constitutional debate between Quebec and the rest of Canada.
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