Pages tagged "Education"
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UCP bill aims to reduce private school tuition reporting
If passed, Bill 21 will make changes to 15 laws including plans to “reduce the collection of financial data that does not support the oversight of public dollars, such as tuition.”
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UCP support for charters competes with public education
Competing interests for funding between the growing charter school system and struggling public schools are on the rise after the UCP government’s increasing support for charters in recent weeks.
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Budget boost not enough to solve school bus driver shortage
Recognizing a province-wide shortage of school bus drivers has put school divisions in a difficult position, Ballard is urging the provincial government to increase student transportation funding.
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Increase in AB education budget lags growth, rising costs
The Alberta UCP government's budget pledges to increase education spending, but critics say it won't cover the ground Alberta students have lost after three years of stalled funding.
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Kenney's UCP Budget 2022 Fact Check
There is little good news in the budget for working Albertans and a lot of unknowns as to where funding is actually going especially given the UCP’s plans to privatize health care and education.
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UCP defunds parent council organization to silence critics
The UCP cut nearly $650K grant funding to the Alberta School Councils' Association (ASCA) after the organization criticized the new draft curriculum, education funding and COVID-19 school management.
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Remember when the UCP shut down Alberta Distance Learning?
"With this pandemic disrupting education in Alberta, if only we’d had an institution that supported at home learning. We did. The UCP shut down the Alberta Distance Learning Centre in 2020."
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Online learning inevitable with UCP’s back to school plan
Students will return to in-person learning on Monday without all shipments of rapid tests and only medical-grade masks. No HEPA filters. No N95 masks. No carbon dioxide monitors. No contact tracing.
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Calgary schools hire up to 200 temp teachers to replace cuts
Critics say the 16-week positions aren't nearly enough to replace the estimated 1,000 teachers and educational assistants that were lost during pandemic UCP cutbacks.
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UCP cut health & education spending by nearly $1B last year
The largest UCP government cuts to actual spending relative to budgeted spending were to the education ministry and the health ministry, which combined lost nearly $1 billion in projected funding.
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