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Oak Hills Elementary to become permanent home for francophone school

Sep 18, 2020 | 12:08 PM

KAMLOOPS — The school district that operates all French schools in British Columbia, will be receiving more than $2 million to purchase the former Oak Hills Elementary School from School District 73.

École Collines-d’Or, an elementary francophone school, has been operating in the school for years under a short-term lease from the Kamloops-Thompson School District. Its capacity is 88 students. Enrolment last year for Grades K-to-8 was 87.

“The SD73 board wants to acknowledge the ministry’s significant capital investment in the Valleyview Secondary expansion, and we are encouraged other Kamloops projects are high on the priority list for additional capital investment in our district,” said School District 73 Board Chair Rhonda Kershaw in a government news release.

“In a country with two official languages, it’s essential that francophone students have the same access to a robust educational experience as their anglophone peers,” said Rob Fleming, Minister of Education.

The government says the investment is part of the Province’s work to provide equal educational opportunities to francophone students in British Columbia.

B.C.’s French language school district, Conseil scolaire francophone de la Colombie-Britannique (CSF), has received $11.5 million to purchase property in Penticton earlier this year. And last year it opened a school in Port Coquitlam.

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