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Originally Posted by guzzy

I want to start off by saying I am no fan of Kenney and didn't vote UCP in the last election. Your comment has no merit. The UCP has never pushed for more private schools, nor defunding the current system. CBE is incompetent. Plain and simple. Who negotiated the $47/sq ft lease with an annual 2.5% increase for 11 years. That is insane. CBE needs to fire all executive, upper and middle management. Start over with results driven people. Make this about public education again.

Are you sure about that?

Alberta's UCP government has removed the word "public" from all Alberta school boards, affecting eight of 41 divisions across the province and leaving educators and administrators scrambling to figure out why.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calga...ards-1.5275561

The proposed shift is part of an extensive overhaul of Alberta’s school system as the new government moves to replace the 31-year-old School Act with an amended version of the Education Act.

Among the changes, set to take effect this fall, is removing the cap on the number of charter schools across the province, which under the previous legislation had to remain at or below 15 schools.

Barb Silva, spokeswoman for the Support Our Students advocacy group, says the change will allow the province to promote privatization and undermine public education.

https://calgaryherald.com/news/local...public-system/

The Alberta government’s decision to freeze education funding has led to a frenzy of cost-cutting at school boards that had expected new money to deal with a flood of additional students that shows no sign of abating.

Alberta’s Opposition New Democrats said on Monday that an analysis shows school boards had thought they would receive a $210-million funding boost this academic year in the first budget from Premier Jason Kenney’s government. But the budget, unveiled last October, contained no new money for the 15,000 more students who entered the province’s schools, leading to classrooms that are increasingly crowded.

School boards have cut budgets for infrastructure and transportation, and dipped into rainy day funds. Calgary’s public school board planned to cut 317 teaching positions, but was given one-time permission in late 2019 to use maintenance cash to pay salaries.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/cana...-cost-cutting/