DCHP-3

separate church school

Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a school for children belonging to a religious minority in a particular district, operated by a school board elected by the minority ratepayers and financed by taxes imposed on them by the board as well as by grants from the provincial Department of Education. Such schools are under the jurisdiction of the Department and follow the same basic curriculum as that laid down for public schools.

See: separate school ((1))(def. 3a)

Quotations

1852
They deem it to be necessary to petition the Colonial Legislature, to, permit the establishment of separate Church Schools, and that the assessments paid by Churchmen for the support of Common Schools, be applied to the maintenance of such as are in connexion with the Church, wherever such appropriation is practical and desired.