It was supported by the Mouvement scolaire confessionnel (MSC), a coalition of Roman Catholic groups that had dominated school commission politics since 1973 by endorsing candidates on an individual basis.
[1] The RSC supported the continuation of Quebec's denominational school system, at a time when the opposition Mouvement pour une école moderne et ouverte (MÉMO) favoured a change to language-based boards.
[8] Quebec education minister Michel Pagé put the MCSC in partial trusteeship in March 1992, after an extended period of deadlock over the appointment of a new director-general (which required two-thirds majority support from commissioners).
[10] The RSC lost its majority in the 1994 elections, falling to nine seats against ten for MÉMO and two for a new group called the Commissaires unis pour un renouveau scolaire (COURS).
The RSC fielded a full slate of candidates for the newly formed Commission scolaire de Montréal in the 1998 elections, running on a platform of keeping the French-language system dominated by Catholic values.
The RSC dissolved after this time, and some of its members helped create a new party, the Collectif pour la réussite et l'épanouissement de l'enfant (CRÉE).