Posted: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 ~ 8:40 AM
Quebec public school enrolment dips to lowest in decades
Enrolment at Quebec's public schools has dropped to its lowest in nearly 50 years, while private-school classrooms continue to fill, the provincial education ministry says. [...] Lower birth rates are the main reason for the decreased enrolment, the ministry's figures suggest. It predicts the trend of having fewer children will continue until 2017.