Ce palier de gouvernement, les commissions scolaires élues, exerce le droit du contrôle et de la gestion à l'égard des écoles desservant les communautés linguistiques minoritaires du Québec.
QESBA represents a universally elected level of government, the only level of government that answers directly and exclusively to the members of Canada's English-speaking minority community. This level of government, elected school boards, has the right to control and manage schools serving the minority-language community of Quebec.