Quebec Education Minister Francois Blais has tabled a bill that would eliminate provincewide school board elections and give more decision-making power to parents and schools.
Voter turnout in school-board elections last year was estimated at less than five per cent.
The new legislation would replace each school board's council of commissioners with a council made up of parents, school staff and community members.
School boards would no longer automatically hold elections, although parents would have the option to trigger an election to select the council's community representatives.
Each school board is also being asked to form a committee to look at how resources are distributed.
Blais says the new model will give parents and school administrators more freedom to make decisions for their individual schools.
