Montreal Jews will have their own schools by September, which will be operated by a Jewish school commission of five members to be appointed by the government. The Jewish “entente” with the Protestants, according to which Montreal Jewish children have these many years been going to the latter’s schools, has been abandoned.
The Jewish school commissions will have full rights on Montreal Island. They will be under the provincial education regulations and also under the surveillance of the superintendent of education, just like the Catholic and Protestant commissions. As a result of this arrangement, there will be no need for Jewish representation on the Council of Education.
At this moment, Jewish leaders declared today, the outstanding problem is the settlement of the problem of financing the schools and the settlement of Protestant and Jewish accounts in that connection.
The above announcements were made today following a conference between Premier Taschereau, Provincial Secretary David and Cardinals Rouleau and Gauthier, Bishops Courchesne and Comtois. It was declared that the original Bercovitch bill about a separate Jewish school panel has been superceded by a bill containing the above-mentioned points.
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