Grant for French-Language Education

Français Program, French Immersion Program and Basic French Courses

Manitoba Education has established a financial support system by which one of its categorical grants is distributed to school divisions where instruction in the French language is offered in their schools.

This grant, disbursed to school divisions, is intended to be used to cover only the additional costs incurred in delivering these programs or courses and not the total cost of educating a child.

See Additional Costs:

• Français Program and French Immersion Program
• Basic French Courses

The Department

• calculates the grant based on enrolment data and the instructional time allotted for French as of September 30^th for the current school year;

  See Funding Formula

  • Français Program and French Immersion Program
  • Basic French: Early Start French, K to 3
  • Basic French: 9-Year Program, Grade 4 to 12
  • Basic French: Intensive French, Grade 5 to 8

• automatically includes the French Language Grant funds as part of the operating advances paid by the Schools' Finance Branch for the period starting from July 1^st of one year to June 30^th of the following year
• reserves the right to be flexible in the application of the regulations governing this grant for certain exceptions or special circumstances in the field

School divisions must

• respect the French Language Education Grant Guidelines
• submit an annual report to the Department through
• FRAME for the Français Program and the French Immersion Program; (please note that the additional costs are embedded in the expenditures) or
• the Categorical Grant Report for the current school year and the Categorical Grant Financial Report for reporting on the expenditures for the school year which terminated on June 30^th, for Basic French Courses.
  
  These two latter categorical grant reports are part of the School Division Planning Report Template.

Contacts

For further information, please contact:

Marcel Bilodeau
Grants and Statistics Officer
Bureau de l'éducation française
Educational Support Services Branch
Room 509, 1181 Portage Avenue
Winnipeg MB  R3G 0T3
Telephone: 204-945-6918
Toll free: 1-800-282-8069 (Ext. 6918)
Fax: 204-945-1625
Email: marcel.bilodeau@gov.mb.ca

Florence Girouard
Director
Bureau de l'éducation française
Educational Support Services Branch
Room 309, 1181 Portage Avenue
Winnipeg MB  R3G 0T3
Telephone: 204-945-8797
Toll free: 1-800-282-8069 (Ext. 8797)
Fax: 204-948-3234
Email: florence.girouard@gov.mb.ca