I will respond first and then Roger will be able to continue.
It varies from province to province. The community and school boards are not involved in the process of saying exactly why they need funding. Is it to train and retain teachers? We are not involved in submitting funding applications and we are not asked why we need funding. In some provinces and territories, once the funding is transferred, those people have no input into the allocation of funding among immersion, French-language instruction and so on.