Many children living in Quebec face considerable barriers in their access to education: they are told they must pay $5826 to $7286 per year in order to attend public schools. It remains to be seen what changes will be brought by bill 144 adopted in November 2017, whose implementation guidelines are not yet official as of October 2018. For more information on how our demands relate to the new law, see our August 2018 media advisory.

The exclusion of kids from primary and secondary school is in violation of obligations to ensure universal access to education without discrimination, as codified in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (article 26), the Convention on the Rights of the Child (article 28), and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (article 13).

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