Education Act, SA 2012, c E-0.3
Francophone education
14(1) If an individual has rights under section 23 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms to have the individual’s children receive school instruction in French, the individual’s children are entitled to receive that instruction in accordance with those rights wherever in Alberta those rights apply.
(2) The Minister may make regulations
(a) respecting the education generally of students whose parents are Francophones, and(b) notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, respecting any matter required to give effect to subsection (1).
(3) A student who is enrolled in a school operated by a Francophone regional authority is entitled to receive school instruction in French.
Enrolment in Francophone school
15(1) If a student’s parent is a Francophone who requests that the student be enrolled in a school operated by a Francophone regional authority and the student resides in the Francophone education region within the distance from the school, as determined by the Francophone regional authority, the student is entitled to attend that school, and the Francophone regional authority shall
(a) enrol the student in that school, and
(b) ensure that the student is provided with an education program consistent with the requirements of this Act and the regulations that will give the student the opportunity to meet the standards of education set by the Minister.
(2) If a student’s parent is a Francophone who requests that the student be enrolled in a school operated by a Francophone regional authority and the student does not reside in the Francophone education region within the distance from the school, as determined by the Francophone regional authority, the Francophone regional authority
(a) may enrol the student in that school under the terms set by the Francophone regional authority, and
(b) if the student is enrolled under clause (a), shall ensure that the student is provided with an education program consistent with the requirements of this Act and the regulations that will give the student the opportunity to meet the standards of education set by the Minister.
(3) If a student is the child of a Francophone and is enrolled in a school operated by a Francophone regional authority, the student continues to be a resident student of a board of a school division or, if section 4(7) applies to the student, of the Government, but section 11(1) does not apply to that board or the Minister, as the case may be, with respect to that student while the student is enrolled in a school operated by a Francophone regional authority.
(4) Notwithstanding subsections (1) and (2), a Francophone regional authority that is requested to enrol a student in a senior high school program beyond a 3rd school year may direct the student to attend a school designated by the Francophone regional authority.
(5) A Francophone regional authority shall enrol a resident student of the Government in a school operated by the Francophone regional authority as requested by the Minister.
