Conseil des écoles françaises de la communauté urbaine de Toronto

The Conseil des écoles françaises de la communauté urbaine de Toronto, commonly known as CÉFCUT (English: Metropolitan Toronto French School Board), is a former public secular French first language school district. The school board was established in 1988 to manage secular French first language schools in Metropolitan Toronto. It operated until 1998, when CÉFCUT was formally merged with other secular French school boards in the Ontario Peninsula, creating Conseil scolaire Viamonde.

Conseil des écoles françaises de la communauté urbaine de Toronto (Metropolitan Toronto French School Board)
Location
1 Concorde Gate Don Mills, North York, Ontario M3C 3N6 Canada
District information
Established	December 1, 1988
Closed	December 31, 1997
District ID	CÉFCUT

Public separate French schools in Toronto were not managed by CÉFCUT, but Les Conseil des écoles catholiques du Grand Toronto, a board managed by the Metropolitan Separate School Board (MSSB). MSSB controlled the separate French school board until 1998, when the MSSB was reorganized, and its English and French components were split into separate school boards. Separate French first language schools in Toronto are presently managed by the Conseil scolaire catholique MonAvenir.

History

Prior to the establishment of CÉFCUT, several English-language school boards in the Toronto area operated secular Francophone schools with a total of almost 1,700 students; they were the North York Board of Education, Scarborough Board of Education, and Toronto Board of Education.^[1] Seven Francophone schools existed in the Toronto area in 1980.^[2] The concept of CÉFCUT was developed by a committee assembled by Ontario Minister of Education Sean Conway. CÉFCUT was established on 1 December 1988,^[1] and it began operations in 1989.^[3]

In 1998, CÉFCUT was merged with several other secular French school boards in the Ontario Peninsula, forming Conseil scolaire Viamonde.

List of schools

The following is a list of schools operated by the school board in 1998, prior to its amalgamation into Conseil scolaire Viamonde:

Elementary

• École élémentaire Félix-Leclerc – Etobicoke
• École élémentaire Jeanne-Lajoie – North York
• École élémentaire Laure-Rièse – Toronto^{[note 1]}
• École élémentaire Gabrielle-Roy – Toronto^{[note 1]}
• École élémentaire Mathieu-Da-Costa – North York

Secondary

• École secondaire Étienne-Brûlé – North York
• Le Collège français à Jarvis – Toronto^{[note 1]}

See also

•  Education portal
•  Canada portal

• Education in Toronto
• Franco-Ontarian

Notes

1. Refers to the old City of Toronto, prior to its dissolution and amalgamation into the "new" City of Toronto in 1998.

References

1. Behiels, Michael D. La francophonie canadienne: renouveau constitutionnel et gouvernance scolaire (Issue 12 of Collection Amérique française, ISSN 1480-4735). University of Ottawa Press, 2005. ISBN 2760306003, 9782760306004. p. 133. "Le Conseil des écoles françaises de la communauté urbaine de Toronto (CEFCUT), le 1^er décembre 1988, s'établit dans un climat beaucoup moins acrimonieux qu'à Ottawa-Carleton. Jusqu'en 1987, les conseils scolaires de Toronto, North York et Scarborough ainsi que leurs CCLF gèrent les classes et les écoles de langue française qui accueillent près de 1700 élèves. En janvier 1987, le ministre de l'Éducation Sean Conway crée un comité de travail de portée générale afin de planifier la mise en train du CEFCUT. En février 1988, le comité présente son rapport final unanime au nouveau conseil scolaire."
2. "Toronto has 7 public schools for French-speaking children." The Canadian Press (CP) at Montreal Gazette. Wednesday May 21, 1980. p. 66. Retrieved from Google News (66 of 141) on July 24, 2013.
3. Heller, Monica. Crosswords: Language, Education and Ethnicity in French Ontario (Mouton Select Series). Walter de Gruyter, 2003. ISBN 3110176874, 9783110176872. p. 243.