Regina, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2014 - The Conseil des Écoles Fransaskoises (CÉF) and the Coopérative des publications fransaskoises (CPF) are launching a campaign to help finance school projects by selling subscriptions to Saskatchewan Francophone weekly l'Eau Vive. Starting today, participating local boards will receive ten (10) dollars for every sale of one-year subscription to the Fransaskois paper made under the program.
"This new partnership is a resolutely Fransaskois solution to the challenge of financing the projects put forward by local school councils," says the Acting Director of Education, Donald Michaud. "We consulted the local boards to gauge the support an initiative like this would receive from school communities, and have offered it to all our local Boards of Trustees. Several of them are taking advantage of the opportunity."
The efforts that schools will invest to recruit new readers for l'Eau Vive among family, friends and community members, will proportionately contribute to increasing awareness of the role the fransaskois education system plays in Saskatchewan' educational landscape, believes CPF's CEO Jean-Pierre Picard:
"Happenings around Fransaskois school life have been our bread and butter at l'Eau Vive since forever. Our correspondents are inspired by those stories. If these reports are read by a larger number of subscribers in their respective communities, l'Eau Vive, and schools will benefit. "
The portion of revenue from subscription sales to return to school boards will be credited under a special promotion code written on forms assigned to each school. Those who wish to subscribe directly online can enter the promotion code of the local school council they wish to support when they will carry out the transaction.
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A first-language school today, a bilingual Francophone for life! - The Conseil des écoles fransaskoises (CÉF) is home to 1,900 preschool to Grade 12 students in 15 elementary and secondary schools across the province. Financed by the Ministry of Education, it is the only French as a first language school board in Saskatchewan.
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