Advocating for the best possible education for all Alberta students - whether that be public, separate, francophone, alternative, charter, independent, or home.
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19 Oct 2025
Check out our full Election 2025 coverage, including survey responses from school trustee candidates in every school board district across the province:
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15 Aug 2025
School boards could have easily required transparency with regard to the pre-existing resources teachers use in your kid's classroom.
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14 Aug 2025
While education in Alberta is ultimately the Province’s responsibility, that doesn’t mean school boards are powerless.
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13 Aug 2025
Despite being elected to keep education responsive at the local level, too many trustees have acted more like political activists than advocates for students.
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27 Jun 2025
Parents overwhelmingly oppose sexually explicit content in school libraries, and they want a greater say in what their children are exposed to in the classroom.
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13 Jun 2025
If a student's school is closed, the money should follow that child to any education their family chooses to fill the gaps!
Sign our petition to Strike-Proof Alberta Students here:
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12 Jun 2025
Instead of being caught in the crossfire of regular labour disputes they are not a party to, families and their students should have an Education Continuity Allowance.
Sign our petition to Strike-Proof Alberta Students here:
#abed #ableg #abpoli
albertaparentsunion.ca/strik…
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2 Oct 2024
"On their visits to the Glenbow Ranch, students will see first hand how cattle are interacting with the wetlands and grasslands."
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2 Oct 2024
"'We paid a lot of attention to the lighting and the acoustics and the flow in the building and how the spaces were designed specifically for our kids.'"
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2 Oct 2024
"The Alberta government says it is a third of a way to its goal of opening up 60 classrooms dedicated to assisting students with mental health struggles across the province."
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1 Oct 2024
"The premier’s overall goal is worthy, but the size of this announcement is shocking.
There hasn’t been anything remotely like it since July 8, 2008, when then-premier Ed Stelmach announced $4 billion in new money for carbon capture"
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1 Oct 2024
"At the centre of it all is what many refer to as the true heart of the community: a pre-K to 9 public school serving about 65 kids."
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1 Oct 2024
"The 24-acre parcel was put up for sale in 2020 but, with no takers, was eventually offered by the city this summer to the area’s Catholic school board for use to locate a new school."
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1 Oct 2024
"My ask to you trustees is to reach out to these other school authorities that do not use seclusion rooms, learn about the approaches that they use, and begin implementing those successful strategies"
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1 Oct 2024
"The ideological extremism of teacher unions and school board organizers won’t let them grasp what a regular taxpayer would see as a historic capital investment in education: the [announcement] of $8.6 billion for school construction"
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30 Sep 2024
"While phones may be the worst culprits for distraction from learning during the school day, the 'educational' screens many children are using in their classrooms, like Chromebooks, tablets, or laptops, are also hurting academic outcomes."
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newsweek.com/educational-scr…
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30 Sep 2024
"Education surveys commissioned by teachers’ unions can be problematic, especially if it’s obvious to respondents that the instruments contain loaded questions reflecting the strong preferences of their sponsors."
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18 Sep 2024
Study shows mandatory class size caps are likely to increase the gap between the richest and poorest students. This is because inexperienced teachers will be even more over-represented than they are now in high-poverty classrooms.
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17 Sep 2024
"Like many other studies on the visualizer-verbalizer style dimension, there was no evidence to support the learning style principle... it is best to be skeptical of recommendations to individualize instruction based on learning style."
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16 Sep 2024
"It represents a new approach to reading education that experts hope will spare hundreds of children the misery of failure.
... the Alberta Teachers' Association criticized the move"
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